Legal Opinion

First National Bank v. Crowley

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided April 16, 1872PublishedCited by 13 opinions

Error to Marquette Circuit. This ease was tried by the court without a jury, and the following facts were found under circuit court rule No. 87: The plaintiff is a corporation organized for the purpose of transacting the business of banking, under and by virtue of an act of congress, approved June 2, 1864, and has had its bank, or place of business, in the village (now the city) of Marquette, since said plaintiff -was incorporated.

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Error to Marquette Circuit. This ease was tried by the court without a jury, and the following facts were found under circuit court rule No. 87: The plaintiff is a corporation organized for the purpose of transacting the business of banking, under and by virtue of an act of congress, approved June 2, 1864, and has had its bank, or place of business, in the village (now the city) of Marquette, since said plaintiff -was incorporated. About one week previous to the 19th of August, 1870, at the said place of business of the plaintiff in Marquette, the Schoolcraft Iron Company, a corporation, by…

1Opinion of the Court

Christiancy, Oh. J.

This was an action of replevin, brought by the bank against the defendant, for two hundred tons of pig iron, claimed to have been purchased by the bank from the Schoolcraft Iron Company.

The judge, before whom the trial was had without a jury, made a special finding of facts in the nature of a special verdict, to which reference is here made for a full statement of the facts.

Judgment was rendered for the defendant, who, as sheriff, had seized the iron upon two executions against the iron company; the judge holding the sale to be incomplete for want of delivery, and that the…

2Cited by13 opinions

  1. State Ex Rel. Rosen v. McLaughlinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1958
  2. Farmers National Bank v. CoynerIndiana Court of Appeals · 1909
  3. Fordice v. GibsonIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
  4. Pearl v. GarlockMichigan Supreme Court · 1886
  5. Haynes v. QuayMichigan Supreme Court · 1903

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