Webster v. Bank of the State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was an action of debt, determined in the Washington Circuit Court, in May, 1841, before the Hon. Joseph M. Hoge, one of the Circuit Judges. The facts of the case were precisely like McFarland and others vs. • The Bank of the State, except in one solitary point, mentioned in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lacy, J.
The question as to the constitutionality of the Bank of the State of Arkansas, is not open for investigation, as that point has been expressly ruled, in several cases before decided by this Court. The objection that there is a variance in the judgment, it being rendered in the name of the State Bank, against the plaintiffs in error, we deem to be a mere clerical misprison. The declaration and writ show, that the suit was brought in the name of the Bank of the State of Arkansas. And when the judgment states that the plaintiffs below recover against the defendants, it…
2Cited by1 opinion
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