Carpenter v. Inhabitants of Lathrop
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. I. The evidence introduced by defendant did not tend to make out a valid defense to the suit. The rule is well established that where a municipal corporation has power under any circumstances to issue negotiable securities, a bona fide holder has the right to presume that they were issued under circumstances which gave the requisite authority.
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Appeal from Clinton Circuit Court. I. The evidence introduced by defendant did not tend to make out a valid defense to the suit. The rule is well established that where a municipal corporation has power under any circumstances to issue negotiable securities, a bona fide holder has the right to presume that they were issued under circumstances which gave the requisite authority. (Elagg vs. Palmyra, 33 Mo., MO; G-elpcke vs. City of Dubuque, 1 Wall., 203 ; 5 Wall., ?84; 48 Mo., 392; 48 Mo.', 16?.) II. The want of a special registration for the purposes of the election in this case, even if it be…
1Opinion of the CourtVories, Judge
This was a suit commenced before a justice of the peace in Clinton county. The action was founded on thirty interest coupons, for five dollars each, and purporting to be for six months interest due on the first day of January, 1871, on bonds issued or made by the town of Lathrop. The appellant recovered a judgment before the justice, from which an appeal was taken to the Clinton Circuit Court, when the plaintiff took a non-suit, and afterwards moved to set the same aside, The court overruled the motion and gave final judg*488ment for the defendant, to which rulings of the court the plaintiff at…
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