Farmers' & Merchants' Bank v. Federal Reserve Bank

COCHRAN, District Judge.

This cause is before me on plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction.

The plaintiff is a Kentucky corporation, doing a banking business at Catlettsburg, a city with a population of about 4,000, in this district. It has a capital stock of $50,000, surplus of about $40,000, and deposits of about $500,000. The defendant bank is a national corporation and is the Federal Reserve Bank for the Fourth District of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. It has a branch bank in Cincinnati, Ohio, and plaintiff is in the Cincinnati Division of such district. The…