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SCOTLAND COUNTY COURT v. U.S. EX REL. HILL

No. 298.

140 U.S. 41 (1891)

11 S.Ct. 697

35 L.Ed. 351

SCOTLAND COUNTY COURT, v. UNITED STATES ex rel. HILL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 20, 1891.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John C. Moore for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. F.T. Hughes for defendant in error. Mr. John H. Overall was with him on the brief.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

In the year 1879, William Hill, the testator of the defendants in error, obtained a judgment in the court below against the county of Scotland, Missouri, for the sum of $46,944, the amount of certain coupons of bonds bearing date September 1, 1870, and issued to the Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska Railway Company, a corporation created by the consolidation of the Alexandria and Nebraska City Railroad Company of Missouri...

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