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- Title: Thomas J. Coffee, Plaintiff in Error v. the Planters Bank of Tennessee
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1851
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
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Mr. Coxe. This was an action in the Circuit Court of the United States by the Planters Bank against plaintiff in error and six others, as the drawers and indorsers of several checks, bills, promissory notes, &c. The plaintiff is averred to be a corporation, created by the laws of Tennessee, &c.; and each and every of the defendants is averred to be a citizen of the State of Mississippi, and these averments were necessary to give jurisdiction to the court. The declaration contains numerous special counts, in all of which, however, the instrument which is the subject of it is averred to have been made in the State of Mississippi, between parties, citizens of that state, and which, after several indorsements, finally came to the hands of plaintiff. In no one instance, however, was the defendant the immediate indorser to plaintiff. It is supposed that in such a case the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction. Young v. Bryan, 6 Wheat. 146; Sullivan v. Fulton Steamboat Company, 6 Wheat. 450; Mollan v. Torrance, 9 Wheat. 537; Evans v. Gee, 11 Peters, 80. The only ground upon which jurisdiction in this case can be sustained is supposed to be presented in the last count in the declaration. This is the common money count.