Legal Opinion

Fulton v. Town of Andrea

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided December 13, 1897No. Nos. 10,689-(69)PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Action in the district court for Wilkin county to recover $160, the amount due upon coupons numbered 4 and 5 of two certain bonds issued in the name of the defendant town and signed by one Perry C. Heath, as chairman of its board of supervisors. The answer denied the execution and delivery of the bonds and alleged that at the time of their pretended execution and delivery one Philip Heider was chairman of its board of supervisors.

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Action in the district court for Wilkin county to recover $160, the amount due upon coupons numbered 4 and 5 of two certain bonds issued in the name of the defendant town and signed by one Perry C. Heath, as chairman of its board of supervisors. The answer denied the execution and delivery of the bonds and alleged that at the time of their pretended execution and delivery one Philip Heider was chairman of its board of supervisors. The an-. swer also set up that in an action in the same court between one Weiser, former owner of these coupons, and this defendant to enforce payment of coupons…

1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.

This action was brought to recover the amount due on several coupons attached to a couple of bonds of five hundred dollars each issued by the town of Andrea, defendant herein, dated June 18, 1887, under the provisions of Sp. Laws 1883, c. 135, and the acts amendatory thereof.

These bonds were issued upon the petition, duly signed, of two-thirds of the legal voters of the town, asking, for the purpose of raising the sum of one thousand dollars for the construction of public roads within the township, that the town issue and sell its bonds, with coupons attached, and that the money obtained from…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Enfield v. JordanSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  2. People v. RobertsCalifornia Supreme Court · 1856
  3. Watkins v. IngeSupreme Court of Kansas · 1880
  4. Carli v. RhenerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
  5. Thompson v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. County of Hennepin v. BrandtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1948
  2. State ex rel. Briggs v. McIlraithSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1911
  3. Rodgers v. SteinerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1940
  4. Huff v. SauerSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1955
  5. State Ex Rel. Carlson v. StrunkSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1945

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