Marion County v. Coler

The defendants in error, W. N. Coler & Co., first sued Marion county on June 6, 1892, in the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Texas, at Jefferson, on certain courthouse and jail bonds, and certain refunding bonds, and on certain “funding or Urquhart bonds.” To that suit the county filed various defenses to the validity of the funding bonds. Said funding bonds were signed by J. M. Urquhart as county judge. The defense then *60feet up was as follows: That the funding bonds were issued without any authority, and that the same were issued in redemption of false, fictitious,…