Sutliff v. Lake County Commissioners
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIFICATE FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado by a citizen of Connecticut against the county of Lake, a municipal corporation of Colorado, upon coupons for interest of six bonds for $500 each, part of a series of ten bonds, issued by the county on July 1,1881, payable to bearer in twenty years, and redeemable at the pleasure of the county…
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CERTIFICATE FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. This was an action brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado by a citizen of Connecticut against the county of Lake, a municipal corporation of Colorado, upon coupons for interest of six bonds for $500 each, part of a series of ten bonds, issued by the county on July 1,1881, payable to bearer in twenty years, and redeemable at the pleasure of the county after ten years, and containing this recital: “ This bond is one of a series of five thousand dollars, which the board…
1Opinion of the Court
Me.- Justice Gray,
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
The constitution, as well as -the statute, of Colorado absolutely forbade a county to issue bonds, under any circumstances, to such an amount as would make the aggregate amount of -the indebtedness of the county more than six.dollars on each thousand if the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the county ./as more than five millions of dollars, or twelve dollars if such valuation was less than five and more than one million; :and limited the right to issue bonds, without' a previous vote of the…
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