· 3/22/1824
US Bank v. PLANTERS'BANK
Citations
- 22 U.S. 904
- 6 L. Ed. 244
- 9 Wheat. 904
- 1824 U.S. LEXIS 410
How courts have described this case
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- holding that even where Georgia was a proprietor and corporator of the Bank, the “Planters’ Bank of Georgia [was] not exempted from being sued in the federal courts”
- “[W]hen a government becomes a partner in any trading company, it devests itself, so far as concerns the transactions of that company, of its sovereign character, and takes that of a private citizen.”
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Judges: Marshall
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