356 FEDERAL REPORTER. �appeared never to have been registered as required by that act. At the trial, aud after the cause had been heard upon its merits, defendant, without haviug in any way pleaded any want of jurisdiction in the court or of competency of plaintiff to sue, offered to show that ail the bonds sued on were owned by residents of Missouri, and had been transferred by them to plaintiff, a resident of Texas, without value, and merely to have him sue thereon in the United States court, and to avoid suing thereon in the state courts.. Plaintiff objected to such evidence as irrelevant, and the same was heard sub- ject to such objection, the court reserving its decision as to its relevancy till the final determination of the case. �Dryden e Dryden, of counsel for plaintiff, cited the foUow- ing authorities : 1 Peters, 450; Id. 498; 6 ïïow. 4; Id. 23 and 30; 7 How. 198; 14 How. 505; 18 How. 76; 20 How. 264; 3 Sawyer, 599; 57 Mo. 86; 14 Mo. 428; 28 Mo. 597; 35 Mo. 461; 40 Mo. 67; Pomeroy on Eem. §§ 128-130; Gauss V. Clarksville, 8 Cent. L. J. 364; Dillon on Mun. Corp. § 730; 22 Mo. 266; 4 Dill. 208; 21 N. Y. 490; Mayor V. Ray, 19 Wall. 484; Wood v, Louisiana, (MS.) U. S. Cir- cuit Court, E. D. Mo.; 1 Daniel Nego. Inst. §§ 201, 204; 2 Kent's Com. (side,) 467; Story on Bills, § 184; 14 Pick. 198; 16 Ohio St. (N. S.) 133; 15 N. Y. 96; 1 Wall. 221, 222; 10 Peters, 343; 2 W. & S. 236; 25 Ind. 31; 25 Ark. 350; 2 Daniel Nego. Inst. § 1274; 43 Vt. 319; 73 Pa. St. 400; 8 Cowen, 77; 2 Pars. N. & B. 205; 2 Bailey, 574; 19 Mo, 637; 33 Mo. 583; 24 How. 287; 99 U. S. 86; 92 U. S. 484; Id. 494. �Wagner, Dyer e Emmons, of counsel for defendant, cited the following authorities : 1 Kent's Com. 349 ; 2 Wagner's St. page 991, § 2, and page 1015, § 12; Myers' Supp. to Wag. St. page 304, § 12; aud y.Burroivs, 1 Otto, 426; Ex parte McNiel, 13 Wall. 243 ; Pom. Eem. pp. 155, 677, 707; Thomp- son V. Raikoad, 6 Wall, 134 ; 1 Wagner's St., title, "Interest," § 1; Southgate v. A. <& P. R. 61 Mo. 89; Story Prom. Notes, §§ 190, 191; Andrews v. Pond, 13 Pet. 65; Fowler v. Brantley, 14 Pet. 321 ; Parsons v. Jackson, 9 Otto, 441 ; Mer- cer County v. Hackett. 1 Wall. 83; Van Hastro v. Madison ��� �
