State v. President of Bank of Tennessee
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM DAVIDSON. Appeal from the Chancery Court of Davidson county., W. S. FLEMING, Oh., sitting by interchange.
1Opinion of the Court
LEA, Sp. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
Judges MAYFIELD and S~EED dissenting.
*103The Legislature, on the 16th of February, 1866, ordered the president and directors of the Bank of Tennessee to make an assignment for the benefit, first,. of the school fund, and secondly, for all the creditors-of the bank whose claims arose before the 6th day of May, 1861, “excluding all claims and demands of all-kinds of date after May 6, 1861, as absolutely null and void.”
The assignment was made on the 4th of May, 1866,. to Samuel Watson, with preferences as directed by the Legislature. On the 16th of May,…
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