Bullard v. Bell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire
At law. Debt on a liability created by statute. The declaration contained a variety of counts, founded on different bank notes; but the material counts were as follows: 1st Count. For that by a certain statute of the state of New Hampshire, passed on the 18th day of June, 1806, which statute now remains in full force, a certain corporation or banking company was established, by the name of the “President, Directors, and Company of the Hillsborough Bank.”
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At law. Debt on a liability created by statute. The declaration contained a variety of counts, founded on different bank notes; but the material counts were as follows: 1st Count. For that by a certain statute of the state of New Hampshire, passed on the 18th day of June, 1806, which statute now remains in full force, a certain corporation or banking company was established, by the name of the “President, Directors, and Company of the Hillsborough Bank.” And in the said statute, it is among other things enacted, that all bills issued from the bank aforesaid, and signed by the president, shall…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
The language of the 11th section of the judicial act (Sept. 24, 1789, c. 20) is: “Nor shall any district or circuit court have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an as-signee, unless a suit might have been prose*627cuted in such court to recover the said contents, if no assignment had been made; except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.” Assuming that congress have authority under the constitution to create such an exception in suits between citizens of different states, upon which, if the…
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