FARMERS AND MECHANICS' BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA v. SMITH


19 U.S. 131 (1821)

6 Wheat. 131

FARMERS AND MECHANICS' BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA v. SMITH.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 12, 1821.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

This cause was argued by Mr. Hopkinson, for the plaintiffs, and by Mr. Sergeant, for the defendant.


Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court, that this case was not distinguishable from its former decisions on the same subject,a except by the circumstances, that the defendant. In the present case, was a citizen of the same State with the plaintiffs, at the time the contract was made in that State, and remained such at the time the suit was commenced in its Courts. But that these facts made no difference in the cases. The...

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