Smith v. Bourbon County
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. This was a bill in equity filed January 28, 1880, in the nature of a creditor’s bill.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS. This was a bill in equity filed January 28, 1880, in the nature of a creditor’s bill. The appellant was the complainant below, and in December, 1879, recovered a judgment at law in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas for $267,113.19, besides costs, against the Fort Scott, Humboldt and Western Eailroad Company, on which judgment an execution has been issued and returned unsatisfied, the defendant corporation being insolvent. The object of the bill was to subject to the satisfaction of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
The prayer of the bill is for a decree, in the first place, against the Fort Scott, Humboldt and Western Eailroad Company, which is a defendant, ordering it to assign to the complainant its claim against the county of Bourbon, and, in the second place, for a decree against Bourbon County and its Board of County Commissioners, ordering the latter to sign and issue in due form the bonds of said county in the sum of $150,000, payable in thirty years from the date thereof, with semi-annual interest coupons attached, in accordance with the terms of the subscription to- the capital stock of the…
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- Fussell v. GreggSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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