Cook v. City of Staunton

The Trust Company of Florida instituted its action in assumpsit in the circuit court of Macoupin county to the September Term, 1928, thereof, and filed its declaration, by the first count of which it alleged that the defendant, the city of Staunton, a municipal corporation, on October 1, 1917, executed and delivered to the plaintiff six certain bonds, in the principal sum of $500 each, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum from date, payable annually, all payable to bearer, and falling due on October 1, 1927; that said bonds were a part of a bond issue for a certain local…