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BISSELL ET AL. v. CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE

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65 U.S. 287 (1861)

24 How. 287

16 L.Ed. 664

GEORGE B. BISSELL, DAVID T. ROBINSON, AND CALVIN DAY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THE CITY OF JEFFERSONVILLE.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 11, 1861.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Taft upon a brief filed by Taft and Perry, and also one filed by Mr. McDonald, for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Reverdy Johnson upon a brief filed by Mr. Crawford for the defendants.

Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes before the court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Indiana. It was an action of assumpsit, and was instituted by the present plaintiffs against the corporation defendants, to recover two instalments of interest which had accrued upon certain bonds, purporting to have been duly issued in the name of the defendants, for stock subscribed in their...

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