Merrill v. National Bank of Jacksonville
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. On the seventeenth day of July, a.d. 1891, the First National Bank of Palatka, Florida, a banking association incorporated under the laws of the United States, having its place of business at Palatka, Florida, failed and closed its doors. Subsequently T. B. Merrill was duly appointed receiver of the bank by the Comptroller of the Currency, and entered upon the discharge of his duties.
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APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. On the seventeenth day of July, a.d. 1891, the First National Bank of Palatka, Florida, a banking association incorporated under the laws of the United States, having its place of business at Palatka, Florida, failed and closed its doors. Subsequently T. B. Merrill was duly appointed receiver of the bank by the Comptroller of the Currency, and entered upon the discharge of his duties. At the time of the failure of the bank, it was indebted to the National Bank of Jacksonville in the sum of $6010.47, on sundry drafts, which…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
The Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decree of the Circuit Court with specific directions. Nothing remained for the Circuit Court to do except to enter a decree in accordance with the mandate, and, for the purposes of an appeal to this court, the decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals was final. The mandate went down and the Circuit Court entered its decree in strict conformity therewith before the appeal in No. 54 was prosecuted to this court. This promptness of action did not, however, cut off that appeal, and any difficulty in our dealing with the cause in the Circuit Court was…
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