Gelpcke v. Dubuque
Cases that cite this one
2 later published cases cite this decision.
- Gelpcke v. City of Dubuque (Supreme Court of the United States 1864)
- Glucose Sugar Refining Co. v. City of Marshalltown (U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Iowa 1907)
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Opinion
GELPCKE ET AL.
v.
THE CITY OF DUBUQUE.
Supreme Court of United States.
*221 Mr. JUSTICE SWAYNE, after stating the difference between the case and No. 80, and quoting this act, thus delivered the opinion of the court:
"In this act it is clearly implied that cities have authority to subscribe for railroad stock, and to issue their bonds in payment of it. What is implied in a statute is as much a part of it as what is expressed. (United States v. Babbitt, 1 Black, 61.) Considering the subject in the light of these acts, we entertain no doubt that the city possessed the power to issue these bonds."
JUDGMENT REVERSED AND CASE REMANDED.
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