Meixell v. Kirkpatrick
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Wilson District Court. ON June 15, 1877, J. L. Forsyth was tbe owner of eight municipal bonds — six thereof being each for one thousand dollars, issued in 1873, by Cedar Rapids township, in Wilson county, and payable to the Memphis & Northwestern Railroad Company, or bearer, in thirty years from the date thereof, and bearing, interest at the rate of 7. per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually — coupons for such interest being thereunto attached; one bond thereof…
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Error from Wilson District Court. ON June 15, 1877, J. L. Forsyth was tbe owner of eight municipal bonds — six thereof being each for one thousand dollars, issued in 1873, by Cedar Rapids township, in Wilson county, and payable to the Memphis & Northwestern Railroad Company, or bearer, in thirty years from the date thereof, and bearing, interest at the rate of 7. per cent, per annum, payable semi-annually — coupons for such interest being thereunto attached; one bond thereof for one thousand dollars, issued in April, 1873, by Center township, in said county, and payable to the said railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
HortoN, C. J.:
This case, with the matters growing out of it, has already demanded much time and attention of this court. (25 Kas. 13; 25 id. 19; 28 id. 315; 29 id. 679.) At the May Term, 1881, of the trial court, Kirkpatrick, plaintiff below, had judgment for $7,500 and costs against Meixell, defendant below. That judgment was reversed solely on the ground that the instruction of the court, as to the measure of damages, was misleading, and that the value of the bonds in controversy as returned by the jury was excessive. (Meixell v. Kirkpatrick, 29 Kas.…
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