Cole v. La Grange
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| 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 |
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Cole v. La Grange, 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, .

