County of Cass v. Gillett
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This action was brought against the county of Cass, Missouri, on certain interest coupons or warrants detached from bonds purporting to be issued by .the county court of that county. The following is a copy of one of the bonds and of a coupon thereto annexed: — ■ “United States oe America.- “ $1,000.] [County Bond No. 66 “County oe Cass, State oe Missouri.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri. This action was brought against the county of Cass, Missouri, on certain interest coupons or warrants detached from bonds purporting to be issued by .the county court of that county. The following is a copy of one of the bonds and of a coupon thereto annexed: — ■ “United States oe America.- “ $1,000.] [County Bond No. 66 “County oe Cass, State oe Missouri. “ Interest ten per cent per annum, payable on the first days of August and February, in New York. “ Know all men by -these presents, that the county of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This case is almost precisely similar to that of County of Henry v. Nicolay (95 U. S. 619), the authority for issuing the bonds being claimed under the same charter (that of the Tebo and Neosho Railroad Company), and being pursued under the same general act of March 21, 1868, as. in that case; and the same defence (amongst others) being set up, to wit, that the subscription to the capital stock of the company was made and the bonds were issued by the act of the county court alone, without a vote of the people, as required by the Constitution of 1865. This is "the ground relied on in the first…
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