Crampton v. Zabriskie
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the District of New Jersey. “ The Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Hudson,” in the State of New Jersey, adopted, Dee. 14, 1876, a resolution for the purchase of certain lots in Jersey City, on which to erect a court-house and offices for the county, at the price of $2,000 for each twenty-five hundred square feet.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of tbe United States for the District of New Jersey. “ The Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Hudson,” in the State of New Jersey, adopted, Dee. 14, 1876, a resolution for the purchase of certain lots in Jersey City, on which to erect a court-house and offices for the county, at the price of $2,000 for each twenty-five hundred square feet. In payment therefor the county was to issue to the owner of them bonds “payable out of the amount appropriated and limited for the expense of the next fiscal year; said bonds to run one year from, the date thereof,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
On the 14th of December, 1876, the Board of Chosen'Freeholders of the County of Hudson, in New Jersey, passed a resolution to purchase of the defendant, Crampton, certain real property in Jersey City, upon which to erect a court-house and other buildings for the county, at the price of $2,000 for .every 2,500 square feet, the price at which he had previously offered to sell the same, and to issue to him in payment thereof bonds of the county, payable out of the amount appropriated and limited for the expenses of the next fiscal year, the bonds to run for one year and to draw interest at the…
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