People v. President
New York Supreme Court
On information in nature of a quo warranto. The pleadings were as follows : ... Albany county, ss : Samuel A. Talco tt, attorney genera^ People of the state of Neto- York, who sues for the said people in this behalf, comes here before the jus-^ces °f the people of the state of New-York, of the suPreme court of judicature, of the same people, on the 8th day of March, 1825, in this same term of February; and f°r the said people, gives the said court here to understand and be…
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On information in nature of a quo warranto. The pleadings were as follows : ... Albany county, ss : Samuel A. Talco tt, attorney genera^ People of the state of Neto- York, who sues for the said people in this behalf, comes here before the jus-^ces °f the people of the state of New-York, of the suPreme court of judicature, of the same people, on the 8th day of March, 1825, in this same term of February; and f°r the said people, gives the said court here to understand and be informed, that The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Niagara, at Buffalo, to wit, at Al--h®wjt,inthe county…
1Opinion of the Court
Curia, per
Savage, Chief Justice,
(after stating the pleadings.) The first question respects the sufficiency of the information. Upon this, I shall only remark, that the form adopted here, is the same which was used in the celebrated case of the city of London, (3 Hargr. St. Tr. 545,) and which was there adjudged sufficient. A like precedent is given in Rex v. Amery, (2 T. R. 515.)
I am perfectly satisfied, therefore, with the form of the pleadings ; and shall only examine the question presented by the demurrer, on the merits of the case ; that is, whether the bank, having become insolvent and…
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