Kennedy v. Georgia State Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Georgia, sitting as a court of equity.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Georgia, sitting as a court of equity. As the decision of the court turned upon some collateral points, it is not necessary to state all the facts in the case, which were extremely complicated.' The Reporter therefore refers the reader to the opinion of the court, which was delivered by Mr. Justice McLean, and which contains a recital of all the facts necessary to an understanding of the points decided. It was argued in conjunction with another case between the same parties, involving the same principles of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
Henry Shultz and Lewis Cooper, in the year 1813, obtained from the State of South Carolina a charter for a bridge over the Savannah River, opposite the town of Augusta, in Georgia, for the term of twenty-one years; and in 1814 the State of Georgia granted to them a charter for the term of twenty years. In 1816, Henry Shultz and John McKinne, being the joint owners of the bridge, formed a partnership in the business of banking, under the ñamé of the “ Bridge Company of Augusta ”; the bridge was valued at seventy-five thousand dollars, and it, with other property named, constituted the…
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