Hopper v. Covington
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was an action by a citizen of New York against a town in Indiana upon certain bonds and coupons.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was an action by a citizen of New York against a town in Indiana upon certain bonds and coupons. The complaint alleged “ that said defendant is a municipal corporation, organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Indiana, with full power and authority, pursuant to the laws of said State, to execute negotiable commercial paper; that, pursuant to the laws of said State regulating the execution of such negotiable commercial obligations, said defendant, on the first day of October, 1878,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice G-ray
The town of Covington had no general power to issue negótiable bonds. If the general statute of Indiana of June 11, 1852, under which it was incorporated, conferred'any power upon towns to issue bonds, it was only for certain municipal purposes therein specified; and the general statute of May 15, 1869, authorized towns to issue bonds for the purchase and erection of lands and buildings for school purposes only. 1 Gavin & Hord’s Stat. 623-626 ; Davis’s Supplt. 116.
The bonds in suit containing no statement of the purpose for which they were issued, and no recital which can bind the town by way…
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