State v. Southern Bank

This suit is to compel the defendant to pay one thousand dollars as a license for the year 1S70, for the privilege of banking.

The bank avers that by its charter and the law authorizing free banks to be established (which forms a part of the charter), free banks are exempted from paying a license for carrying on their business.

There was judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and the defendant has appealed.

It is admitted by the Attorney General that this question was decided in the case of New Orleans v. Southern Bank, 11 An. 42, but he insists, in the brief filed, that we should overrule it. In…