Mount Pleasant v. Beckwith
Supreme Court of the United States
In 1873, Charles Beckwith filed his bill in "the court below, against the town of Mount Pleasant, the town "of Caledonia, and the city of Racine, in Racine County, Wisconsin, to enforce the payment of certain bonds issued in the year 1853, by the town of Racine in said county, in payment of stock for which it subscribed in the Racine, Janesville, and Mississippi Railroad Company, The legislature of the Territory of Wisconsin, by an act approved Jan. 2, 1838, among other…
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In 1873, Charles Beckwith filed his bill in "the court below, against the town of Mount Pleasant, the town "of Caledonia, and the city of Racine, in Racine County, Wisconsin, to enforce the payment of certain bonds issued in the year 1853, by the town of Racine in said county, in payment of stock for which it subscribed in the Racine, Janesville, and Mississippi Railroad Company, The legislature of the Territory of Wisconsin, by an act approved Jan. 2, 1838, among other things, established the towns of Racine and Mount Pleasant, and defined their boundaries; and by an act approved Feb. 7,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clieeoed
Explicit authority from the legislature was given to the supervisors of the town of Raeine to subscribe for the stock of the railroad company mentioned in the act conferring the power, to an amount not exceeding $50,000, provided a majority of the legal voters of the municipality, at a meeting of the town duly called and held for the purpose, shall vote in favor of making the proposed subscription. Sess. Laws Wis. (1853) p. 11.
Pursuant to that authority, the proper officers of the town, on the 6th of December, 1853, subscribed for the capital stock of the railroad company to the amount of…
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