HALL v. GEIGER-JONES CO.

Nos. 438, 439, 440.

242 U.S. 539 (1917)

HALL, SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS AND BANKING OF THE STATE OF OHIO v. GEIGER-JONES COMPANY. HALL, SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS AND BANKING OF THE STATE OF OHIO v. COULTRAP. HALL, SUPERINTENDENT OF BANKS AND BANKING OF THE STATE OF OHIO ET AL. v. ROSE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 22, 1917.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward C. Turner, Attorney General of the State of Ohio, for appellants.

Mr. John A. Shauck and Mr. Timothy S. Hogan, with whom Mr. A.M. McCarty, Mr. E.N. Huggins, Mr. M.B. Johnson, Mr. H.H. Johnson and Mr. Francis R. Marvin were on the briefs, for appellees:

Mr. George Cosson, Attorney General of the State of Iowa, and Mr. Walter C. Owen, Attorney General of the State of Wisconsin, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curice on behalf of the National Association of Attorneys General of the United States.

Mr. George W. Wickersham, Mr. Robert R. Reed and Mr. Charles K. Allen, by leave of court, filed a brief as amici curice on behalf of the Investment Bankers Association of America.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

It will be observed that these cases bring here for judgment an asserted conflict between national power and state power, and bring, besides, power of the State as limited or forbidden by the National Constitution.

The assertion of such conflict and limitation is an ever-recurring one; and yet it is approached as if it were a...

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