Briefs & Arguments in the Cause of the State & Watson v. Bank of Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
W. F. Cooper for the State. The State also appeared, and, by the Attorney-General, filed a separate demurrer. It is a matter of history, of which the court will take judicial notice, that early in the year 1861, the State of Tennessee undertook to separate from the Federal Union, and, in fact, join the Southern States in the late civil war.
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W. F. Cooper for the State. The State also appeared, and, by the Attorney-General, filed a separate demurrer. It is a matter of history, of which the court will take judicial notice, that early in the year 1861, the State of Tennessee undertook to separate from the Federal Union, and, in fact, join the Southern States in the late civil war. The reiusal of the State executive to obey the call of the President of the United States for troops to suppress insurrection was made in April, 1861, and from that time the •State ceased to yield obedience to the laws of the United States, and prepared…
1Opinion of the Court
BRIEF.
The original bill in this case was filed on the 16th of May, 1866, for the purpose of having the assets of the Bank of Tennessee administered, under the orders and decrees of the court, in accordance with the provisions of a general assignment made on the 4th of May, 1866. This-assignment was authorized and directed by an act of the-General Assembly, passed on the 16th of February, 1866,. entitled “an act to wind up and settle the business of the Bank of Tennessee.” It provides, in the first instance, for the security of the common school fund, and then of the holders of the circulating…
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