Town of Concord v. Portsmouth Savings Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action of assumpsit to recover the amount of the coupons attached to certain bonds issued by the supervisor and town-clerk of the town of Concord, in the State of Illinois.
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. This was an action of assumpsit to recover the amount of the coupons attached to certain bonds issued by the supervisor and town-clerk of the town of Concord, in the State of Illinois. The act of the general assembly of the State of Illinois, pursuant to which the bonds recite that they were issued, provides, — “ That all incorporated cities and towns acting under the township organization law, which lie wholly or partly within twenty miles of the east line of this State, and also between the city of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The bonds to which the coupons in suit were attached purport to have been made under legislative authority given to the town officers by the act of March 7, 1867. Their recitals make direct reference to that act by its title, which is set forth at length, with an averment that they were issued under and by virtue of it. The primary question, therefore, is, whether that statute did in reality give to the supervisor and clerk of the town power to execute and deliver town bonds on the ninth day of October, 1871 (when the bonds were in fact issued), as an appropriation or donation to the railroad…
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