Clark v. Metropolitan Bank

The plaintiff has commenced sixty-four suits, all of which are at issue, for the recovery of separate penalties of one thousand dollars each, for an alleged violation of the act of May 7th, 1839, entitled “an act concerning foreign bank notes." The defendant moves for an order consolidating all these suits, or staying proceedings in all of them except number one, until the trial or other final determination of such last mentioned suit, on the ground that the questions, which will arise, and the defence, in all such suits, are substantially the same. The statute prescribes, 2 R. S. 480, § 38,…