Bernards Township v. Stebbins
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE -CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW JERSEY. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
These are appeals by a township in New Jersey from decrees of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, upon bills in equity by the .appellees for relief against the accidental omission of seals on its bonds. The facts, appearing by the record,, are as follows:
By the general laws of New Jersey, the inhabitants of each township in the State are a body politic and corporate, by the name of “The Inhabitants of the township of'-in the eounty of-.” Rev. Stat. of N. J. of 1877, 1191.
On the 9th of April, 1868, the legislature of New Jersey passed a statute entitled “ An…
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