ABIE STATE BANK v. BRYAN

No. 63.

282 U.S. 765 (1931)

ABIE STATE BANK v. BRYAN, GOVERNOR OF NEBRASKA, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1931.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Leonard A. Flansburg and Frank H. Gaines, with whom Mr. S.S. Sidner was on the brief, for appellant.

Messrs. C.A. Sorensen, Attorney General of Nebraska, and Charles E. Abbott for Bryan, Governor of Nebraska, et al., appellees.

Mr. William J. Hotz, with whom Messrs. Clinton J. Campbell, Frank A. Hebenstreit, Robert H. Hotz, Ralph G. Coad, John D. Lynch, and Henry R. Gower were on the brief, for Mary E. Gandy et al., intervening appellees.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This suit was brought in December, 1928, in the District Court of Lancaster County, Nebraska, by the Abie State Bank on its own behalf and that of several hundred other banks, all chartered under the laws of Nebraska, to enjoin the defendants from collecting special assessments under the Bank Guaranty Law of that State. The plaintiffs challenged the constitutionality of the statute authorizing the levy of...

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