United States v. President of the Bank of the United States
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J. The facts of this case are stated in detail in the opinion pronounced by Gakland, J. In the month of January, 1842, the United States, by their attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, filed their petition claiming of the Bank of the United States, chartered by the State of Pennsyl vania, the sum of $1,986,589 04, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the 3d of March, 1835, until paid.
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Appeal from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J. The facts of this case are stated in detail in the opinion pronounced by Gakland, J. In the month of January, 1842, the United States, by their attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, filed their petition claiming of the Bank of the United States, chartered by the State of Pennsyl vania, the sum of $1,986,589 04, with interest at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the 3d of March, 1835, until paid. The foundation of this claim was a bond given by the bank, in part payment- to the United States, of athe stock held by…
1Opinion of the Court
Garland, J«
In this court the case has not only been fully and ably argued by the counsel for the United States, and the assignees, but we have been furnished with a very ingenious and well considered argument in writing, from a gentleman under*402stood to represent a number of other attaching creditors, not now before us, but whose interests are the same with the United States, except in the question of priority or preference claimed. Our attention has been directed not only to the law and decisions of the.courts in England and in the various States of the Union, but to our own jurisprudence in…
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