Board of County Commissioners v. Linn
Supreme Court of Colorado
Appeal from ' the District Court of Fremont County This is an action to recover on coupons of municipal bonds issued by Lake County, Colorado, on January 2, 1882, under authority conferred by an act of the general assembly entitled “An act to enable the several counties of the state to fund their floating indebtedness,” approved February 21, 1881. 1 Mills Ann.
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Appeal from ' the District Court of Fremont County This is an action to recover on coupons of municipal bonds issued by Lake County, Colorado, on January 2, 1882, under authority conferred by an act of the general assembly entitled “An act to enable the several counties of the state to fund their floating indebtedness,” approved February 21, 1881. 1 Mills Ann. Stat. §§ 939 to 944. The bonds recite upon their face that they are part of an issue of funding bonds aggregating $500,000, and were made payable to different persons. Plaintiff did not receive them direct from the county, but bought…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Campbell
(after stating the facts) delivered the opinion of the court.
Two assignments of error are relied upon and argued by counsel for appellant: first, as to the correctness of the findings upon the evidence; second, the right to enter judgment for overdue interest on coupons attached to county bonds.
1. A number of actions upon this same series of bonds have heretofore been brought and determined in the state and federal courts. In Lake County v. Standley, 24 Colo. 1, this court, in an able opinion by Mr. Justice Goddard, in an action upon coupons of the same series of bonds, has declared the…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Aurora City v. WestSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Lake County v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Chaffee County v. PotterSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
- Sutliff v. Lake County CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1893
- Walnut v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
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