James v. Milwaukee

Citations

• 83 U.S. 159
• 21 L. Ed. 267
• 16 Wall. 159
• 1872 U.S. LEXIS 1144

Syllabus

<p>An act of legislature authorizing a municipal corporation to lend its credit to a railroad company specitied, and to 11 any other railroad company duly incorporated and organized for the purpose’ of constructing railroads,!’ leading in a direction named, “and which in the opinion of common council are entitled to such aid from the cityauthorizes the’lepding of the city credit to a railroad company thereafter duly incorporated and organized, as well as the lending of such credit to those in’ existence when the act was-passed.</p>