Geer v. Board of Com'rs
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The writs of error in this case challenge a judgment in favor of the board of county commissioners of the county of Ouray which was rendered in an action brought by Robert C. Geer to enforce the collection of overdue coupons cut from certain refunding bonds issued by that county. The plaintiff.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. The writs of error in this case challenge a judgment in favor of the board of county commissioners of the county of Ouray which was rendered in an action brought by Robert C. Geer to enforce the collection of overdue coupons cut from certain refunding bonds issued by that county. The plaintiff. Geer, in his complaint alleged that prior to May 1, 1890, the defendant, the county of Ouray, was indebted to various persons, who had brought actions and had recovered judgments against it in courts of competent…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The first error alleged by the county is that the court below did not sustain the second defense pleaded in its answer. That defense was that the act of April 17,1889, which provided that "the board of county commissioners of any county in this state, against which a judgment has been or may be rendered in any of the courts of record in this state, may issue its bonds in satisfaction of such judgment and accrued interest thereon, dollar for dollar; such bonds to draw interest at not to exceed eight per centum, per annum” (Bess. Laws, Colo. 1889, pp. 31, 32, § 2), was void, and did not…
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