17-146 Refunding bonds; power to issue. - Nebraska Statutes

17-146. Refunding bonds; power to issue.A second-class city shall have power to issue bonds in place of, or to supply means to meet its maturing bonds, or for the consolidation or funding of the same. SourceLaws 1881, c. 24, § 1, p. 198; R.S.1913, § 5040; C.S.1922, § 4209; C.S.1929, § 17-148; R.S.1943, § 17-146.AnnotationsWhere bonds, when issued by a city, contain recitals insuring that "all preliminary steps had been taken in manner and form required by law", if it appears later when bonds are in the hands of a purchaser that a fact stated in the recitals is untrue, the city is estopped to so prove or contend. South Sioux City v. Hanchett Bond Co., 19 F.2d 476 (8th Cir. 1927).Findings of a board, authorized by the Legislature to determine questions of fact upon which limitations of amount of issue of bonds depends, are conclusive in favor of bona fide purchasers of such bonds. Chilton v. Town of Gratton, 82 F. 873 (Cir. Ct., D. Neb. 1897).