Cole v. La Grange

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Supreme Court of the United States
Full case name: Cole v. City of La Grange
Citations: 113 U.S. 1
Holding
Court membership
Chief Justice: Morrison Waite
Associate Justices: Samuel Freeman Miller, Stephen Johnson Field, Joseph Philo Bradley, John Marshall Harlan, William Burnham Woods, Thomas Stanley Matthews, Horace Gray, Samuel Blatchford
Case opinions
Majority by: Gray

Cole v. La Grange, 113 U.S. 1 (1885) was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which the court held that the Missouri legislature could not authorize a city to issue bonds to assist corporations in their private business.

The case was cited in the dissenting opinion of Justice Thomas in Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005).

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