Hanauer v. Woodruff
Supreme Court of the United States
On certificate of division in opinion between the.judges of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas; the ease being thus: Hanauer sued Woodruff" in the court below upon a promissory note executed by the. latter, at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 22d of December, 1861, for $3099, payable twelve months after date, if not before, with interest after maturity at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum.
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On certificate of division in opinion between the.judges of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas; the ease being thus: Hanauer sued Woodruff" in the court below upon a promissory note executed by the. latter, at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 22d of December, 1861, for $3099, payable twelve months after date, if not before, with interest after maturity at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum. The case was tried in the District of Arkansas, by the Circuit Court, without the intervention of a jury, by stipulation of the parties. And the court found, specifically, that the only…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The first question presented is embraced within the second, for if the consideration of the note was illegal under the Constitution of the United States and the laws of Congress, there can be no inquiry whether it was void for reasons of public policy. There can be no public policy in this country which contravenes the law of the land. And that the consideration was illegal and void under the Constitution and laws of the United States, does not admit of a doubt. If the Constitution be, as it declares on its face it is, the supreme law of the land, a contract or undertaking of any kind to…
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