HILL v. MEMPHIS

No. 68.

134 U.S. 198 (1890)

HILL v. MEMPHIS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 10, 1890.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John H. Overall and Mr. F.T. Hughes for plaintiff in error.

Mr. Henry A. Cunningham for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE FIELD, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The act of the legislature of Missouri of February 9, 1857, to incorporate the Alexandria and Bloomfield Railroad Company, gives no authority to any town of the State to issue bonds for stock subscribed by it. The fourteenth section, which is the one upon which the plaintiff relies, empowers the county court of a county in which any part of the route of a

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