Osborn v. Bank of United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding federal jurisdiction because of statute empowering a federal corporation “to sue and be sued ... in all state courts having competent jurisdiction, and in any circuit court of the United States”
• “A corporation, it is true, can appear only by attorney, while a natural person may appear for himself.”
• “A corporation, it is true, can appear only by attorney, while a natural person may appear for himself.”
• “It has been our long-standing rule that a corporation must be represented by an attorney to appear in federal court.”
• “Natural persons may appear in court, either by themselves or by their attorney.”
• “Judicial power is never exercised for the pur- pose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).