Webb v. Lafayette County
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to Lafayette Circuit Court. — Hon. ¥h. T. Wood, Judge. The coupon described in the first count of the petition was for interest at the rate of ten per cent., payable semiannually. 1. The Lexington & St. Louis railroad bonds are void, because neither the charter of that company nor the supplemental act of January 4th, 1860, authorized the county to issue ten per cent, bonds with interest payable semi-annually and the funding act of March 24th, 1868, is void, being in…
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Error to Lafayette Circuit Court. — Hon. ¥h. T. Wood, Judge. The coupon described in the first count of the petition was for interest at the rate of ten per cent., payable semiannually. 1. The Lexington & St. Louis railroad bonds are void, because neither the charter of that company nor the supplemental act of January 4th, 1860, authorized the county to issue ten per cent, bonds with interest payable semi-annually and the funding act of March 24th, 1868, is void, being in conflict with section 32, article 4, constitution of 1865. Bee People v. Commissioners of Palatine, 53 Barb. 715 Grubbs v.…
1Opinion of the Court
Norton, 3.
This suit was instituted in the circuit court of Lafayette county. The petition contains two counts, the first of which is founded upon a coupon or interest warrant of a county bond of defendant, issued to the Lexington & St. Louis Railroad Company; the second of which is founded upon a coupon of defendant’s bond for and on behalf of Sni-a-bar township, in said county, issued to the Lexington, Chillicothe & Gulf Railroad Company. It is alleged that the bond, a coupon of which; is declared upon the first count, was issued by virtue of an order of the county court, and an act of the…
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