Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Inhabitants of Town of Harmony v. Truman

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided March 12, 1914No. 1032Published

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Maine; Clarence Hale, Judge. Suit by Nathan H. Truman against the Inhabitants of the Town of Harmony, Maine. From a decree in favor of complainant (205 Fed. 549) defendant appeals.

1ConcurrenceBingham, Circuit Judge

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court for the District of Maine, overruling the defendant’s demurrer, and from a final decree in favor of the plaintiff, in an equity proceeding brought by Nathan H. Truman against the town of Harmony, in which he asks that certain bonds of the town be declared good and valid after- reducing their amount to the limit the town was authorized to issue, and for the payment of certain overdue coupons after scaling them down to correspond with the reduced value of each bond.

It appears that the town on June 20, 1895, voted an appropriation of $8,500…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Hedges v. Dixon CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Parkersburg v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  3. Chapman v. County of DouglasSupreme Court of the United States · 1883
  4. Litchfield v. BallouSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
  5. Dixon County v. FieldSupreme Court of the United States · 1884

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