Hill v. Scotland Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Missouri
At Law. Suits upon coupons detached from bonds of Scotland county, Missouri. The answer states that the bonds to which the coupons in suit were originally attached were authorized to be issued to the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Bailway Company conditionally; that the condition has never been complied with; and that they were unlawfully issued by the presiding justice of the county court and the clerk of said county to one Mety, as trustee, and were by him unlawfully delivered…
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At Law. Suits upon coupons detached from bonds of Scotland county, Missouri. The answer states that the bonds to which the coupons in suit were originally attached were authorized to be issued to the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Bailway Company conditionally; that the condition has never been complied with; and that they were unlawfully issued by the presiding justice of the county court and the clerk of said county to one Mety, as trustee, and were by him unlawfully delivered to said company. The case was tried by a jury. The defendant asked the court to give the following among other…
1Opinion of the Court
Treat, J.,
(charging jury.) There are three cases submitted to you, and they depend essentially upon the same propositions of law. The court has reduced to writing the views which must control these cases. The court declares the law to be that the plaintiff in each case is entitled to recover on all such obligations sued on, respectively, as he has proved were executed and delivered in manner and form as stated; that is, duly signed by Dawson, the presiding justice o.f the county court of Scotland county, and Sterling McDonald, clerk of said county, and counter-,signed by Charles Mety, under…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wagner v. MeetySupreme Court of Missouri · 1878