Legal Opinion

Governor

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided January 15, 1872PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Per Bliss, Judge.

1. Slate bonds — Governor, authority of to contract for payment in specie.— The State by the course of its Legislature is estopped from now disputing the authority of the governor to contract for the payment of State bonds in gold and silver.

*217Supreme Court'Rooms, Jeeeerson City, Jan. 23, Í872.

To his Excellency ihe Governw of the State of Missouri:

Sir: The judges of the Supreme Court have received your communication of date of January 22, 1872, addressed to them in these words:

“ To the Honorable Philemon Bliss, David Wagner, Washington Adams, Judges of the Supreme Oourt of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Bronson v. RodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1869

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. State ex rel. Hawes v. MasonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1899
  2. In re the Constitutionality of Senate Bill No. 65Supreme Court of Colorado · 1889
  3. State ex informatione Crow v. Lincoln Trust Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1898
  4. In re Construction of ConstitutionSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1893
  5. In re Penitentiary CommissionersSupreme Court of Colorado · 1894

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