State v. Eades
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — TIon. IT. P. White, Judge. Even if the city could successfully defend an action brought to enforce collection of this certificate on the ground that it was issued without authority, it does not follow that it is not an instrument calculated on its face to deceive any one to whom it might be offered. Our statute is very comprehensive, and includes every instrument or writing whereby a pecuniary obligation purports to be created.
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Appeal from Jackson Criminal Court. — TIon. IT. P. White, Judge. Even if the city could successfully defend an action brought to enforce collection of this certificate on the ground that it was issued without authority, it does not follow that it is not an instrument calculated on its face to deceive any one to whom it might be offered. Our statute is very comprehensive, and includes every instrument or writing whereby a pecuniary obligation purports to be created. It does not make it a condition precedent • that the person or corporation who appears to have made it, should have had the power…
1Opinion of the CourtNorton, J.
Defendant was indicted in the criminal court of Jackson county at its November term, 1874, for forgery. The indictment contains five counts, in some of which defendant is charged with forgery, and in others with uttering the following certificate of indebtedness of the City of Kansas :
Certificate of Indebtedness of the City of Kansas.
State or Missouri, 1 t1,n -vr 17P9 County of Jackson, /SS> f150, 17y2,
This is to certify that the City of Kansas is indebted to John Halpin in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, due and payable October 1st 1878, with interest at the rate of ten per cent,…
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