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CHEROKEE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS v. WILSON

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109 U.S. 621 (1883)

3 S.Ct. 352

27 L.Ed. 1053

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF CHEROKEE, v. WILSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 17, 1883.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wallace Pratt and Mr. Charles W. Blairs for plaintiff in error.

Mr. James S. Botsford, Mr. Marcus T.C. Williams and Mr. Joseph Shippen for defendant in error.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.

On the 11th of June, 1881, William C. Wilson, the defendant in error, recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas, against the township of Salamanca, Cherokee county, for $48,920.31. At that time the office of trustee of the township was vacant, and it has not been filled since. On the 24th of July, 1882, Wilson sued out of the same court an alternative writ of...

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