Morrison Waite

“ Bonds issued under the authority of a popular election cannot be set aside simply because all that may have been said by interested parties, in public speeches during the canvass which preceded the election, does not turn out to be in every respect true. ”

“ In the proposition of the company to Greene County, it was suggested that the bonds to be issued in payment of the subscription should be 'in the sum of one and five hundred thousand dollars each.' In the records of the court ordering the election, the proposition, as recorded, is that the bonds be 'in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars each.' The final action of the court was to issue bonds of five hundred dollars. ”

“ In his hands they would be good vouchers for money disbursed from that fund. The provision that the coupons should be received in payment of taxes levied to meet them is entirely inconsistent with any idea of an unliquidated claim which required further auditing. ”