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154 U.S. 536

17 L. Ed. 558

Docket No. 100.

Richardson v. Lawrence County

Supreme Court of the United States

Submitted January 12, 1864.

Decided January 25, 1864.

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1864-01-25

<p>certificate of division in opinion from the circuit court OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.</p> <p>The case is stated in the opinion.</p>

2 counsel of record

Relies on Woods v. Lawrence County

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Certification to/from lower court · 10–0 · Decided 1864-01-25

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¶1certificate of division in opinion from the circuit court OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA.

¶2Woods v. Lawrence County, 1 Black, 386, affirmed and applied to this case.

¶3The case is stated in the opinion.

¶4Mr. Justice Grier

¶5delivered the opinion of the court.

¶6The certificate of division of opinion by the judges of the Circuit Court in this case is liable to the objection that one of the points submits the whole ease. The first two present, in fact, but a single proposition, arising on j;he speeiaPverdict.

¶7The> law authorizing the issue of the ’bonds by the county, required that the railroad company should not sell them at less than par value. The verdict finds that they were sold by the railroad company for sixty-four cents in the dollar, and'submits to the court whether the judgment should be for the interest at the par value of the bonds, or for only sixty-four per cent. On this point the court was divided, and the question is properly presented by the certificate of division.

¶8Since this case was certified, that of Woods v. Lawrence County, 1 Black, 386, was argued at length by learned counsel and carefully considered by this court. The report of that case shows thát all the questions that could arise in this case were decided in that. It *537was there decided that the right of the holder of these bonds and coupons to - recover their par value is not affected by the fact that the railroad company to whom they were given paid them out to contractors for sixty-four cents in the dollar.

¶9Mr. J. Knox for plaintiff.

¶10Mr. R. B. McCombe and Mr. Lewis Taylor for defendant.

¶11The clerk will therefore certify to the Circuit Court that the motion of plaintiff “ to enter a verdict and judgment in his behalf for the sum of $864 with interest, from November 14, 1861,” ought to be granted.

¶12This will dispose of the whole case. So answered.

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