Morrison Waite

“ It is no longer an open question in this court that bonds issued by counties in Missouri during the years 1870 and 1871, in payment of subscriptions to the stock of railroad companies, without a vote of the people, are valid, if the subscription was made under authority granted before the adoption of the constitution of 1865, which did not require such a vote to be taken. ”

“ We there declined to follow the case of State v. Dalls Co. Ct. 72 Mo. 329, decided in 1878, which substantially overruled a long line of cases in the supreme court of the state on which our earlier decisions were predicated. In Marcy v. Tp. ”