Indiana Ex Rel. Stanton v. Glover

Citations

• 155 U.S. 513
• 15 S. Ct. 186
• 39 L. Ed. 243
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2098

Syllabus

<p>A Circuit Court has jurisdiction of a suit brought in the name of the State in which the circuit is situated, on the relation of a citizen of another State, to enforce the obligations of a bond given by citizens of the State in which the suit is brought for the faithful performance of his duties by a municipal officer of that State.</p> <p>A certificate, made and payable in a State out of a particular fund, and purporting to be the obligation of a municipal corporation existing under public laws and endowed with restricted powers, granted only for special and local purposes of a non-commercial character, is not governed by the law merchant, and is open in the hands of subsequent holders to the same defences as existed against the original payee.</p> <p>The sureties on the bond of the trustee of a municipal township in Iridiana are not subjected by the Revised Statutes of that State, §§ 6006, 6007, to liability for the payment of warrants or certificates which, apart from those sections, it was not within the authority of the trustee to execute, or which were fraudulent in themselves.</p> <p>A township trustee in Indiana cannot contact a debt for school supplies unless supplies suitable and reasonably necessary for the township have - been actually delivered to and accepted by it.</p>