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This Supreme Court case concerns $29,000 in bonds issued by the Board of Commissioners of Shelby County, Tennessee to the Mississippi River Railroad Company. The plaintiff contends the bonds are valid and binding, while the defendant county argues they are invalid. The Court follows prior decisions of the Tennessee Supreme Court that the Board of Commissioners was an illegal and unauthorized body, and thus its actions in subscribing to railroad stock and issuing bonds were void. As there was no valid office

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Dara Compuesto

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