In Re Menefee, State Treasurer
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Error from District Court, Logan County; A. Ii. Huston, Judge. In tbe matter of J. A. Menefee, State Treasurer, and others. Submission to agreed ease. From the judgment, the State Treasurer brings error.
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Error from District Court, Logan County; A. Ii. Huston, Judge. In tbe matter of J. A. Menefee, State Treasurer, and others. Submission to agreed ease. From the judgment, the State Treasurer brings error. On the 20th day of August, A. D. 1908, J. A. Menefee, State Treasurer, and the commissioners of the land office for the state of Oklahoma, submitted for decision of the district court of Logan county .the following agreed statement of facts: That on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1908, the state of Oklahoma issued its certain State funding bond, being in words and figures as follows: “United…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, C. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The question to be determined on this record is whether or not the bonds issued pursuant to an act of .the Legislature of March 6, 1908 (Laws 1907-08, p. 155, c. 7), are valid, said bonds having been issued to refund an indebtedness of the territory of Oklahoma, which was assumed by the state by section 4 of article 1 (Bunn’s Ed. § 6) of the Constitution, and to meet expenses not provided for in a sum less than $400,000.
1. It appears to be conceded that, as to debts for expenses not provided for in a sum not exceeding $400,000 by virtue of sec tion 23 of…
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- City of Huron v. Second Ward Sav. BankCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
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