THE HOPE INSURANCE COMPANY OF PROVIDENCE
v.
BOARDMAN
v.
BOARDMAN
Feb 15, 1809.
9 U.S. 57
Ingersjtll, for the plaintiffs- in error,, Adams, contra.
how much stronger is the probability that they could be influenced in favour of a powerful moneyed institution which might be composed of the most influential-characters in the state. What chance for justice could a . plaintiff have against such a powerful association in the courts of a small state whose judges perhaps were annually elected
. The Court having, in the case of The Bank of the United States v. D;ve'aux et al. decided that the right of a corporation to litigate .in the courts' of the United States depended upon the character (as to citizenship) of. the members which compose .the body corporate, and that a body corporate as such cannot be a citizen, within the meaning of the constitution, reversed the judgment, for want of jurisdiction in the court below.