Anderson County Commissioners v. Beal
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE KANSAS. This was an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, by Thomas P. Beal, against the . Board of County Commissioners of the County of Anderson, in the State of Kansas, to. recover the amount of 90 coupons for $70 each due January 1,1881, and the same amount due January 1, 1882. The coupons were cut from bonds alike except as to their numbers, of…
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE DISTRICT OE KANSAS. This was an action at law, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, by Thomas P. Beal, against the . Board of County Commissioners of the County of Anderson, in the State of Kansas, to. recover the amount of 90 coupons for $70 each due January 1,1881, and the same amount due January 1, 1882. The coupons were cut from bonds alike except as to their numbers, of the following form: “ No.-. County of Anderson. 1,000. United States of America, State of Kansas. Know all men by these…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
He recited the facts, as above stated, and continued:
It is not disputed that the recital, in the bond, that it was issued under the act of February 26,1866, Sess. Laws of Kansas, 1866, ch. 24, p. 72, was an error. That act authorized county subscriptions to the stock of railroad companies, when authorized' by a majority of the votes cast at a county election, if' twenty days’ notice of the election had first been given “ in some newspaper published and having general circulation in the county, or, in case there be no paper published in the county, then by written or printed notices posted up…
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