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ROBERTSON v. COULTER ET AL.

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57 U.S. 106 (1853)

16 How. 106

14 L.Ed. 864

WILLIAM ROBERTSON, TRUSTEE OF THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF NATCHEZ, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. HENRY R. COULTER, AND JAMES RICHARDS, EXECUTORS OF JOSEPH COLLINS, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 30, 1853.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Lawrence, for the defendants in error, moved to dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction, inasmuch as there does not appear to have been drawn in question any treaty or law of the United States, and the State law, (the validity of which was affirmed by the court below,) was in no respect repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by writ of error directed to the High Court of Errors and Appeals of the State of Mississippi, under the 25th section of the act of 1789; upon the ground that a law of that State, under which this decision was made, impairs the obligation of contracts.

It is an action of assumpsit. The plaintiff declares on a promissory note made...

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