Noah Haynes Swayne

“ The learned counsel for the plaintiff in error could hardly have been serious in insisting that proof that the road authorized by the charter to be built 'was a wild and visionary enterprise,' and that meetings of tax-payers denouncing the issuing of the bonds was competent in the case as it stood for any purpose. ”

“ Each count is upon a coupon averred to have been detached from a bond for $1,000, issued by the county of Macon on the 2d of May, 1870, and payable to the Missouri and Mississippi Railroad Company or bearer, at the National Bank of Commerce, in the city of New York, on the second day of May, 1890, with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum, to be paid semi-annually on the presentation of the coupons attached. ”

“ It is also alleged that the defendant paid the interest on the bond for the year 1870, and that the plaintiff is the holder and bearer of the coupon for value. There are other averments which show the liability of the defendant and make the count good. The further counts are upon coupons taken from other bonds of the same issue. The counts are all alike mutatis mutandis.
The defendant filed a multitude of pleas. It is not necessary particularly to advert to any of them. ”