Draper v. Springport
Supreme Court of the United States
.Error to the Circuit Court of, the United States for the Northern. District of New York. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.',
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The action below was brought by Draper against the town of Springport, to recover the amount of certain interest coupons annexed to certain instruments called bonds of the town of Springport, issued in payment of stock of the Cayuga Lake Railroad Company, One defence was that the bonds had no seals affixed to the signatures of the town commissioners. For this defect the court. below gave judgment for the defendant, a jury having been waived by the parties. Other.defences were set up on the trial, but were overruled by the court. These were: 1st, That on a certiorari■ (to which the plaintiff…
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