Hill v. City of Memphis
Decision Date | 10 March 1890 |
Citation | 33 L.Ed. 887,10 S.Ct. 562,134 U.S. 198 |
Parties | HILL v. CITY OF MEMPHIS. 1 |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Loan and Trust Company, in New York, on the first day of March, A. D. 1891, with interest thereon from the first day of March, 1871, at the rate of eight per cent. per annum, which interest shall be payable annually, in the city of New York, on the first day of March in each year, as the same shall become due, on the presentation of the coupons hereto annexed. This bond being issued under and pursuant to an order of the board of trustees of the town of Memphis, for subscription to the stock of the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, as authorized by an act of the general assembly of the state of Missouri entitled 'An act to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company, approved February 9, 1857.' In testimony whereof the said town of Memphis has executed this bond by the chairman of the board of trustees signing his name hereto, and the clerk of said board of trustees under the order thereof attesting the same and affixing thereto the seal of said board. Thus done at the town of Memphis, in the county of Scotland, in the state of Missouri, this first day of March, A. D. 1871.
'[Seal Town of Memphis, Scotland Co., Missouri.]
'H. H. BYRNE,
'Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Memphis.
'Attest: WILLIAM L. KAYS, Clerk.' The coupons, excepting in their number and dates, are in the following form:
'Railroad Bond Coupon. 80.
Memphis, Mo., March 1, 1871.
Loa & Trust Company, in New York, eighty dollars, being one year's interest eighty dollars, being one year's interest on bond No. 4, for $1,000.
H. H. BYRNE, Chairman.'
The bond, on its face, purports to have been issued on the 1st day of March, 1871, by order of the board of trustees of the town of Memphis, for subscription to the stock of the Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska Railway Company, as authorized by an act of the general assembly of the state of Missouri entitled 'An act to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company,' approved February 9, 1857. That act provided that the company should in all things be subject to the same restrictions, and be entitled to all the privileges, rights, and immunities, which were granted to the North Missouri Railroad Company by its act of incorporation, (March 3, 1851,) so far as the same were applicable, as fully and completely as if they were thereby re-enacted. The fourteenth section of this latter act is as follows:
The plaintiff also relied as authority for issuing the bonds, though not recited in them, upon section 17 of the general railroad law of Missouri, which went into effect August 1, 1866. That section is as follows: Gen. St. Mo. 338. He also relied upon the act of March 24, 1868, entitled 'An act to enable counties, cities, and incorporated towns to fund their respective debts,' which is as follows:
'Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Missouri as follows: Section 1. That the various counties of this state be, and they are hereby, authorized to fund any and all debts they may owe, and for that purpose may issue bonds bearing interest at not more than ten per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, with interest coupons attached; and all counties, cities, or towns in this state which have or shall hereafter subscribe for the capital stock of any railroad company may, in payment of such subscriptions, issue bonds bearing interest at not more than ten per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, with interest coupons attached. The bonds authorized by this act shall be payable not more than twenty years from date thereof.
This act to take effect from and after its passage.
Approved March 24, 1868.'
Section 14 of article 11 of the constitution of Missouri, which went into effect in 1865, declares that 'the general assembly shall not authorize any county, city, or town to become a stockholder in, or to loan its credit to, any company, association, or corpo- ration, unless two-thirds of the qualified voters of such county, city, or town, at a regular or special election to be held therein, shall assent thereto.' The town of Memphis was incorporated by act of the legislature of Missouri, November 4, 1857, but that act was repealed on the 31st of December, 1859. An attempt was mad to show that the people of the same area of country, in the following year, organized themselves into a municipality under the general law of the state, by the name of 'The Inhabitants of the Town of...
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