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ETTING v. THE BANK OF U.S.

24 U.S. 59 (____)

11 Wheat. 59

SOLOMON ETTING, Plaintiff in Error, v. The PRESIDENT, DIRECTORS AND COMPANY OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Webster and Mr. Taney, for the plaintiff in error, and by the Attorney General and Mr. Emmett, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

If this case depended on the deservedly high character of the individuals who were engaged on the part of the bank in the transactions in which the suit originated; if elevation above the possibility of suspicion that they could have meditated any thing believed by themselves to be legally or morally wrong, could decide it, this cause would not have required the...

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