Jefferson Branch Bank v. Skelly
Supreme Court of the United States
Writ of error to tbo Supreme Court of Ohio. The Jefferson branch of the State Bank of Ohio brought trespass in the Common Pleas of Jefferson county against Alexander Skelly, and chargedin their declaration that the defendant took and carried away from the banking-house of the plaintiff, at Steubenville, a certain quantity of gold coin of the value of seven thousand dollars, and converted it to his own use.
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Writ of error to tbo Supreme Court of Ohio. The Jefferson branch of the State Bank of Ohio brought trespass in the Common Pleas of Jefferson county against Alexander Skelly, and chargedin their declaration that the defendant took and carried away from the banking-house of the plaintiff, at Steubenville, a certain quantity of gold coin of the value of seven thousand dollars, and converted it to his own use. The defendant pleaded specially, in justification, that he was treasurer of Jefferson county, and, as such, required and authorized by law to collect the taxes assessed in the county of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
This case has been brought to this court by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of. Ohio. •
Its purpose is to revise a judgment rendered by that court, in which it has, among other things, declared, contrary to the uniform decisions of this court upon the same subject-matter,. that the 60th section of the charter’’of the State Bank of Ohio is not a contract withiu the meaning of that clause of the Constitution of the United-States which provides, “that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts.”
We' shall not now reargue the question, nor any point in…
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