Brown v. County Commissioners
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
This was a Bill in Equity, filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on the part of John A. Brown and others, citizens and taxable inhabitants of the county of Philadelphia, complaining that Adam Shetzline, William Faunce, and William S. Allen, County Commissioners of the eounty of Philadelphia, were about to subscribe for 20,000 shares of stock in the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, at $100 per share.
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This was a Bill in Equity, filed in the Supreme Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on the part of John A. Brown and others, citizens and taxable inhabitants of the county of Philadelphia, complaining that Adam Shetzline, William Faunce, and William S. Allen, County Commissioners of the eounty of Philadelphia, were about to subscribe for 20,000 shares of stock in the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, at $100 per share. It was further alleged, that they designed to issue bonds in the name of the county of Philadelphia to the amount of two millions of dollars, pledging the faith…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Black, C. J.
— This is a bill in equity by several citizens and taxable inhabitants of the county of Philadelphia, who complain that the defendants, commissioners of the county, have agreed to subscribe for twenty thousand shares of capital stock in the Sun-bury and Erie Railroad Company, at one hundred dollars for each share, and to pay for these shares are about to make and issue bonds in the name of the county, to the amount of two millions of dollars; pledging the faith and credit of the county for their payment. The bill avers that the large debt…
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