Moores v. National Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern, District of Ohio. The action was brought by Caroline A. Moores against the Citizens’ National Bank of Piqua, in March, 1878. The amended petition, filed on the 11th of February, 1S74, and subsequently amended by leave of court in some particulars, after a motion of the defendant to require the plaintiff to make it more specific, alleged that the defendant was a banking corporation duly incorporated under the…
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Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern, District of Ohio. The action was brought by Caroline A. Moores against the Citizens’ National Bank of Piqua, in March, 1878. The amended petition, filed on the 11th of February, 1S74, and subsequently amended by leave of court in some particulars, after a motion of the defendant to require the plaintiff to make it more specific, alleged that the defendant was a banking corporation duly incorporated under the laws of the United States in 1864, with a capital stock of one thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, of which the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The principal embarrassment in this case, arises- from the difficulty of ascertaining from the prolix and obscure record what was actually decided in the court below.
The decision of that court sustaining the demurrer to the plaintiff’s first reply to the first ground of defence was based upon the position that the exception in the statute of limitations of Ohio in favor of a married woman was repealed by the statute of 1870, by which it was enacted that a married woman might sue alone in actions concerning her separate property. That decision was in accordance with an opinion of the majority…
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