Legal Opinion

Sprigg v. Bank of Mount Pleasant

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1840PublishedCited by 31 opinions

ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. This case was brought before the Court at January term, 1836, bn a writ of error, prosecuted by the present appellant, seeking to reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court in an action instituted against him on a joint and several bond, under seal, made by him and others, to the Bank of Mount Pleasant, for the payment of .a sum of money stated m the bond, to the bank, upon which ■obligation the…

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ON appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. This case was brought before the Court at January term, 1836, bn a writ of error, prosecuted by the present appellant, seeking to reverse the judgment of the Circuit Court in an action instituted against him on a joint and several bond, under seal, made by him and others, to the Bank of Mount Pleasant, for the payment of .a sum of money stated m the bond, to the bank, upon which ■obligation the bank had loaned the sum of twenty-one hundred dollars,"and had paid the same to Peter Yarnall and Company, one of…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson

This case comes up on appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. The appellant filed his bill on the equity side of the Court for an injunction, to enjoin all further proceedings on a judgment recovered against him by the appellees, on the law side of the Court. The judgment was founded upon the same single bill now in question, and is as follows :

“@2,100: Know all men by these presents, we Peter Yafnail & Co., Samuel Sprigg, Richard Simms, Alexander Mitchell, and Z. Jacobs, as. principals, are jointly and severally held and firmly bound to the President,…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. United States v. KirkpatrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
  2. McLemore v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1827
  3. Samuel Sprigg, in Error v. The Bank of Mount PleasantSupreme Court of the United States · 1836

3Cited by31 opinions

  1. United States v. MacKSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
  2. United States v. AmesSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
  3. Equitable Surety Co. v. United States Ex Rel. McMillanSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  4. Campbell v. DearbornMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
  5. Richardson v. HardwickSupreme Court of the United States · 1882

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