Auten v. United States Nat. Bank of NY
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Two of the parties to this action in the court below were national banks, one located at New York, the other located at Little Rock, Arkansas. Sterling R. Cockrill, as receiver of the latter bank, was also a party. He resigned and plaintiff in error was appointed. The banks will be denominated respectively the New York bank and the Little Rock bank.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. Two of the parties to this action in the court below were national banks, one located at New York, the other located at Little Rock, Arkansas. Sterling R. Cockrill, as receiver of the latter bank, was also a party. He resigned and plaintiff in error was appointed. The banks will be denominated respectively the New York bank and the Little Rock bank. The complaint contained the necessary jurisdictional allegations, and that on December Y, 1892, the City Electric Street Railway Company, a corporation organized and doing business…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice McKenna,
after making the above statement,- . delivered the opinion of the court.
1. To sustain the motion to dismiss, it is contended that the jurisdiction of the case depends on diversity of citizenship, and hence that the judgment of the Circuit Court of Appeals is .final. But one of the defendants (plaintiff in .error), though a citizen of a different State from the plaintiff in the action (defendant in error), is also a receiver of a national bank appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency and is an officer of the United States, and an action against him is one arising under…
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