Brookings State Bank v. Federal Reserve Bank

WOLVERTON, District Judge.

In this case there is diversity of citizenship. A federal question is also involved. So it cannot be said that jurisdiction is founded only on the fact of diversity of citizenship. The defendant' is a federal reserve bank, with its head office and principal place of business in San Francisco, Cal, and with branch banks elsewhere, one of these being located at Portland, Or. Plaintiff has sued the defendant in this court, in tort. Service was had upon Frederick Greenwood, manager of the Portland Branch, within this jurisdiction, on November 18, 1922. On November 23d,…