Mandeville v. Riggs
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of the United States for the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia.. In that court in July 18 L8, a bill was filed byrthe appellee against certain individuals named,in the subpoena, charging them with having entered into a certain association or co-partnership, called “ the Merchants’ Banit of Alexandria.”
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THIS was an appeal from the decree of the circuit court of the United States for the county of Alexandria, in the district of Columbia.. In that court in July 18 L8, a bill was filed byrthe appellee against certain individuals named,in the subpoena, charging them with having entered into a certain association or co-partnership, called “ the Merchants’ Banit of Alexandria.” That the partnership, for a considerable time, issued notes and bills, and in other respects prosecuted their trading or business as a bank, until about the month, of May 1816, at which time they became so embarrassed as…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is an appeal from a decree rendered dn the circuit court of the district, 'of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria, in a suit in chancery, in which the appellants were original defendants. The appellants are stogkholders in an unincorporated association, which was. formed in 1815", for the purpose of carrying on the business of banking, under the name of the Merchants' Bank of Alexandria; the nature and extent of which association is evidenced by certáin articles of agreement,, which were at the time published in the newspapers in the district, and are set forth in the case. The first article…
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