Washington County v. Williams
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. These are two cases, one at law and tlie other in equity, which in the main involve the same questions, and have been argued and briefed together.
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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska. These are two cases, one at law and tlie other in equity, which in the main involve the same questions, and have been argued and briefed together. The controversy arises out of the following facts: On July 1, 18(19, Washington comity, in the state of Nebraska, executed and delivered to the Sioux City & Pacific Railroad Company 149 obligations, in tlie following form: “State of Nebraska. Washington County. “Five Hundred Dollar R. R.…
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, Circuit Judge
In behalf of Washington county it is claimed that the obligations executed by it on July I, 1869, one of which is set forth in full in the foregoing statement, were executed without authority of law, and are invalid in the hands of any holder thereof. It is urged, in substance, that the obligations in question were not authorized by the provisions of the “ninth chapter of the Revised Statutes of the State of Nebraska,” which is referred to therein, and under which an election to authorize the issuance of the obligations was held, because that chapter of the Revised Statutes (the same being an…
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