Lawrence Nat. Bank v. Rice

McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.

The record upon which this appeal was heard made it appear that appellees filed an original bill of complaint in the court below. Neither in the record, the assign*643ments of error, the briefs, nor the oral arguments was there an .intimation that the cause orginally was brought in the state court, removed to the federal court, a motion to remand filed, argued and overruled. The case turned upon the construction of a contract by which a national bank had satisfied its creditors in order to accomplish its dissolution as authorized by the -National Banking Act, and was…