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Irvine Ex Rel. Lumberman's Bank at Warren v. Lowry

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1840PublishedCited by 38 opinions

GN a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania On the 6th of May, 1839, a writ of foreign attachment was issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county, Pennsylvania, in the name of Guy C. Irvine, for the use of the Lumberman’s Bank at Warren, against Nathaniel A. Lowry, requiring bail in eighty thousand dollars.

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GN a certificate of division from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania On the 6th of May, 1839, a writ of foreign attachment was issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county, Pennsylvania, in the name of Guy C. Irvine, for the use of the Lumberman’s Bank at Warren, against Nathaniel A. Lowry, requiring bail in eighty thousand dollars. The action was founded on a promissory note, in the following terms : “ @53,000. Warren, Pa,. Sept. 6, ’37. “Three months after dáte I promise to pay to the order of G,uy C; Irvine,, Esq. fifty-three…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin

This suit was instituted, in the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county, Pennsylvania, whence it was removed to the Circuit Court for the western district of that state, pursuant to' the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789, section twelve; and comes before this Court on a certificate of division of opinion between the, judges of that Court* pn a motion to remand the cause for want of jurisdiction.

Irvine, in whose name the suit is brought, is a citizen of Pennsylvania; the Lumberman’s Bank of Warren, is a corporation chartered, by a law of that state, and located at Warren; part of the…

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