Platte Valley Bank v. Harding
Nebraska Supreme Court
The Platte Valley Bank sued Harding in the District Court for Otoe county, upon a promissory note made by him, whereby he promised to pay to “The Platte Valley Bank or order, $400, etc.” The plaintiff claimed to be incorporated by an act of the legislature of the Territory of Nebraska.
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The Platte Valley Bank sued Harding in the District Court for Otoe county, upon a promissory note made by him, whereby he promised to pay to “The Platte Valley Bank or order, $400, etc.” The plaintiff claimed to be incorporated by an act of the legislature of the Territory of Nebraska. The defendant denied that it was incorporated, because, he insisted, that the alleged act of incorporation conflicted with an act of Congress entitled “An act to disapprove and annul certain acts of the Territorial Legislature of Florida, and for other purposes.” Be it enacted by the Senate and House of…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court,
by Hall Ch. J.,
held that the question of the incorporation of the bank could not be raised in this cause, because the defendants were estopped to deny the same.
Judgment affirmed.
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