Supreme Court of the United States January 22, 1883, 76 (Thompson v. Perrine)

Mr. Justice Harlan

delivered the opinion of the court.

In

Thompson

v.

Perrine,

103 U. S. 806, we affirmed a judgment of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, against the town of Thompson, in that State, for the amount of certain coupons of bonds, executed in behalf of that town, by virtue of the provisions of an act passed May 4, 1868, and amended April 1,