BERNARDS TOWNSHIP v. MORRISON

No. 195.

133 U.S. 523 (1890)

BERNARDS TOWNSHIP v. MORRISON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 3, 1890.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Alvah H. Clark and Mr. James R. English for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Cortlandt Parker for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE BREWER delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action on township bonds. Judgment was rendered against the township, and it alleges error. The bonds were issued under an act approved April 9, 1868, and found in the session laws of New Jersey for that year, pages 915, etc. Outside of the obligatory words, this was the form of the bond:

"This bond is one of a series of like tenor, amounting in the whole to the sum of one hundred and twenty...

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