Legal Opinion
Sturges v. Crowninshield
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 17, 1819PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
17 U.S. 70 (____)
4 Wheat. 70
STURGES
v.
CROWNINSHIELD.
Supreme Court of United States.
February 8th. Daggett, for the plaintiff.
Hunter, contra.
February 17th, 1819. MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.
This case is adjourned from the court of the United States for the first circuit and the district of Massachusetts, on several points on which the *192] judges of that court were divided, which are stated *in the record for the opinion of this court.
The first is, whether, since the adoption of the constitution of the United States, any state has authority to pass a bankrupt law, or…
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