Ashley v. Board of Supervisors
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This was an action brought by William J. Ashley against the board of supervisors of the county of Presque Isle to recover upon certain county bonds and coupons. The court below directed a verdict for defendant, and entered judgment accordingly, and plaintiff brought the case, on error, to this court.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Eastern District of Michigan. This was an action brought by William J. Ashley against the board of supervisors of the county of Presque Isle to recover upon certain county bonds and coupons. The court below directed a verdict for defendant, and entered judgment accordingly, and plaintiff brought the case, on error, to this court. In this case the plaintiff sued to recover upon bonds Nos. 5 and 6, and several interest coupons belonging to those and other numbered bonds in the same series, being part of an issue of 18 bonds for the sum…
1Opinion of the Court
SE.VERENS, District Judge,
(after stating the facts.) In regard to the question of the validity of the bonds of Presque Me county, issued in 1871, the court appears to have held that it was precluded by the. decision of the supreme court of Michigan in the case of Pack v. Supervisors, 36 Mich. 377, which was supposed to have held that there was no organized county of Presque Isle at the time when those bonds were issued; and, inasmuch as the question of the proposed expenditure was in fact submitted to the electors before the bonds were issued, the ruling of the court below must be construed…
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