Corning v. Board of Com'rs of Meade Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is an action upon coupons cut from railroad aid bonds issued by the hoard of county commissioners of the county of Meade, in the state of Kansas. The defenses to them are that the county had no power to issue the bonds or the coupons because (1) the aggregate amount of Die. bonds — $120,000—exceeded the limitation prescribed by the statutes of Kansas (1 Gen. St. Kan. 1897, p. 755, § 70); and because (2) the petition to the board of county commissioners to submit to a vote the proposition to issue the bonds was presented, and the notice of the election was given,…
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