Williamsport Bank v. Knapp
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIROUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The original action was debt on § 5198 of the'Revised Statutes, brought- in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, against a national banking association established within that district, to recover twice the amount of interest, at the rate of nine per cent., received by the defendant upon the discount of certain promissory notes.
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ERROR TO THE CIROUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The original action was debt on § 5198 of the'Revised Statutes, brought- in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania, against a national banking association established within that district, to recover twice the amount of interest, at the rate of nine per cent., received by the defendant upon the discount of certain promissory notes. Sec-'tión 5197- prohibits'any such association from- receiving upon such q discount a higher rate of interest than is allowed by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justiob Geay,
after stating the case as above reported, delivered the opinion of the court.
• Assuming, what does not appear in the record, that the evidence stated in the bills of exceptions was all the evidence introduced at the trial and referred to in the certificate of division, that certificate is clearly insufficient to support the jurisdiction of this court.
Under the acts of Congress, authorizing questions arising on a trial or hearing before two judges in the Circuit Court, and upon which they are divided in opinion, to be certified to this court for decision, it has always been…
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