Jarrolt v. Moberly
Supreme Court of the United States
Error tó the Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Western District of Missouri. The plaintiff is a citizen of the State of Illinois. The defendant is the city of Moberly, a municipal corporation of the State of Missouri.
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Error tó the Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Western District of Missouri. The plaintiff is a citizen of the State of Illinois. The defendant is the city of Moberly, a municipal corporation of the State of Missouri. This action was brought to recover judgment. upon several interest coupons, originally .annexed to, but now detached from, bonds issued by the city for the purchase of lands, consisting of two hundred acres, to be donated to the St. Louis, Kansas City, and Northern Railway Company, for “ machine-shop purposes.” The petition — which is the designation given to the first…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The object of the inhibition in the State Constitution was to ’'■prevent the creation of debts by counties, cities, and towns on belialf of any company, association, or corporation without the assent of two-thirds of their qualified voters. The loan of their credit, that is, the placing of their obligations for the payment of money for the use of companies, was the usual mode in which they incurred, indebtedness. Aid in this way to companies, particularly such' as were organized for the construction of railroads, was given so frequently by municipal bodies, in Missouri, before the…
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- State v. Curators State UniversitySupreme Court of Missouri · 1874
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