Commercial Bank v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
The four cases above named were argued and submitted to the.court at the same time. They were severally proceedings in the circuit courts respectively of Yazoo, Clairborne and Jefferson counties, under the law passed and approved July 26, 1843, entitled “ An act to prescribe the mode of proceeding against incorporated banks for a violation of their corporate franchises, and against persons pretending to exercise corporate privileges, under acts of incorporation and for other…
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The four cases above named were argued and submitted to the.court at the same time. They were severally proceedings in the circuit courts respectively of Yazoo, Clairborne and Jefferson counties, under the law passed and approved July 26, 1843, entitled “ An act to prescribe the mode of proceeding against incorporated banks for a violation of their corporate franchises, and against persons pretending to exercise corporate privileges, under acts of incorporation and for other purposes.” For the proper understanding of these cases, it will be necessary to state thesubstance of this law. The…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thacher
delivered the following opinion, in the ease of the Commercial Bank of Rodney against the State.
This was a proceeding against the Commercial Bank of Rodney, under the statute of 1843, entitled “ An act to prescribe the mode of proceeding against incorporated banks, for a violation of their corporate franchises, and against persons pretending to exercise corporate privileges, under acts of incorporation, and for other purposes.”
This act provides, that it shall be the duty of each district attorney in the state, whenever he shall have reason to believe, or whenever the affidavit of a credible…
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