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President of the Miners' Bank v. Iowa Ex Rel. District Prosecuting Attorney

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 31, 1851PublishedCited by 29 opinions

This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Supreme Court for the Second Judicial District of the State of Iowa. Proceedings were commenced when Iowa was a Territory, but in the progress of the cause she was admitted as a State. The pleadings set forth the facts of the case.

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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Supreme Court for the Second Judicial District of the State of Iowa. Proceedings were commenced when Iowa was a Territory, but in the progress of the cause she was admitted as a State. The pleadings set forth the facts of the case. At the November term, 1845, of the District Court of Dubuque county, in the Territory of Iowa, the District Attorney of the United States filed the following information: James Grant, district prosecutor of the third Judicial District, who prosecutes for the United States, on leave granted, comes into said…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel

By a statute approved on the 20th of April, 1836. Congress, within the boundaries designated by that statute, established the territorial government of Wisconsin, (vid. 5 Stat. at Large, 10 to 16); and by a subsequent law, approved June the 12th, 1838, Congress divided the Territory of Wisconsin, and established over what had formed a portion of that territory, the territorial government of Iowa, (vid. 5 Stat. at Large, 235 to 241.) On the 3d of March, 1845, the Territory of Iowa was admitted into the Union, as one of the States of this confederacy, (vid. 5 Stat. at Large, 742,) and on the 3d…

2Cited by29 opinions

  1. Downes v. BidwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1901
  2. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. SowersSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
  3. Lyons v. WoodsSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  4. Territory v. Long Bell Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1908
  5. State v. NormanUtah Supreme Court · 1898

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