State ex rel. Whiteman v. Chase
Ohio Supreme Court
This is an application for the allowance of a writ of peremptory mandamus. The relators allege that they have organized a'banking association, as a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in Hamilton county, denominated the Cincinnati Branch of the State Bank, which has been found, upon due examination, under the direction of the board of control, to have complied with the provisions of the act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and other banking companies,…
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This is an application for the allowance of a writ of peremptory mandamus. The relators allege that they have organized a'banking association, as a branch of the State Bank of Ohio, at Cincinnati, in Hamilton county, denominated the Cincinnati Branch of the State Bank, which has been found, upon due examination, under the direction of the board of control, to have complied with the provisions of the act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and other banking companies, passed February 24'th, 1845, and therefore lawfully entitled to commence and carry on the business of banking, at tbe place…
1Opinion of the CourtBartley, C. J.
The following questions have been discussed, and are presented for determination in this case :
1st. Whether the governor can be controlled in his offleial action by the authority of a writ of mandamus from the Supreme Court ?
2d. Whether the authority to form banking companies, in the county of Hamilton, under the act to incorporate the State Bank of Ohio and other banking companies, passed February 24th, 1845, and the amendment thereto passed in 1848, has been exhausted, so that, in case of the failure or surrender of the franchise by some of the companies heretofore organized, new or…
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