State ex rel. Clyde v. Mayor of Bristol
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SULLIVAN. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Sullivan County. John P. Smith, Chancellor.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkes
This is a petition for mandamus to compel the city of Bristol to levy and collect a tax to pay certain judgments rendered by this court upon interest coupons from bonds issued to pay a stock subscription by. the city to the South Atlantic & Ohio Railroad Company.
The application is resisted upon two grounds: First, because complainants, by their mode of proceeding, and under their pleadings, have reopened the *318question of the validity of the bonds from which the coupons were clipped, and it is claimed the bonds are illegal and invalid, and the judgments should never have been rendered; second,…
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