Ex parte Conway
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This case was presented to the Court on a petition for a mandamus, prayed to be directed to the Hon. John J. Clendenin, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, requiring him to grant the injunction prayed for by the petitioners, Jamas S. Conway, and others, trustees of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas, against William Field, and others, five of the directory of that Bank, at Little Rock.
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This case was presented to the Court on a petition for a mandamus, prayed to be directed to the Hon. John J. Clendenin, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, requiring him to grant the injunction prayed for by the petitioners, Jamas S. Conway, and others, trustees of the Real Estate Bank of the State of Arkansas, against William Field, and others, five of the directory of that Bank, at Little Rock. The original bill, praying the injunction, which was presented to the Chancellor, in April, 1342, and from which the case will be fully?" understood, was as follows: To the Hon. John J. Clendenin,…
1Opinion of the Court
The motion was refused by
Judge Dickinson,
who said:
That the- question presented is of vital importance, as regards both the State and its citizens, is conceded. Such is the light in which it has been viewed by the Court. In this, as in all other cases, the difficulty in determining is not the amount in dispute, but the principle involved. No case has ever received more profound attention from this Court, than the one now before us; and in none has its judgment-been more firmly convinced. Upon the argument for reconsideration, the whole ground was re-examined, with the same result. We know of…
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