Farmers' Nat. Bank v. Jones
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Arkansas
In Equity. Suit against the state debt board of Arkansas to compel the issuance of state funding bonds to complainant. The act of the legislature of the state of Arkansas approved May 8, 1899, entitled, “An act to fund the debt of Arkansas and for other purposes,” contains the following provisions: “Seelion 1. That the state debt board is hereby authorized and directed to fund tlie valid bonded indebtedness of the state of Arkansas, excepting the one hundred and sixty (ICO)…
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In Equity. Suit against the state debt board of Arkansas to compel the issuance of state funding bonds to complainant. The act of the legislature of the state of Arkansas approved May 8, 1899, entitled, “An act to fund the debt of Arkansas and for other purposes,” contains the following provisions: “Seelion 1. That the state debt board is hereby authorized and directed to fund tlie valid bonded indebtedness of the state of Arkansas, excepting the one hundred and sixty (ICO) bonds of the series of 1870, now owned and held by the United States, and to call in the outstanding script and…
1Opinion of the CourtCaldwell, Circuit Judge
A state, without its consent, cannot be sued by an individual. “It is a well-established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts or any other without its consent and permission; but it may, if it thinks proper, waive this privilege, and permit itself to be made a defendant in a suit by individuals or by another state.” Beers v. Arkansas, 20 How. 527, 15 L. Ed. 991. The United States has waived this privilege in this regard, and allowed suits to be brought against it in a few specified cases. Some of the states of the Union,…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Hans v. LouisianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Osborn v. Bank of United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Chisholm v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1793
- In Re AyersSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Davis v. GraySupreme Court of the United States · 1873
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3Cited by4 opinions
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- Huntt v. Government of the Virgin IslandsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967
- Leslie F. Huntt v. The Government of the Virgin IslandsCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1967