Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Dearing

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ‘When either of two constructions can be given to a statute, and one of them involves a forfeiture, the other is to be preferred.”
• ‘The power to supplement [Section 86] by State legislation is conferred neither expressly nor by implication.’
• national bank in New York may not charge ten percent when state limit is seven percent
• “When either of two constructions can be given to a statute, and one of them involves a forfeiture, the other is to be preferred.”
• “[National banks organized under the act are instruments designed to be used to aid the government in the administration of an important branch of the public service. They are means appropriate to that end.”
• “States can exercise no control over [national banks], nor in any wise affect their operation, except in so far as Congress may see proper to permit.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).