Legal Opinion

White v. Knox

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided May 5, 1884PublishedCited by 112 opinions

IN ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite

delivered the. opinion of the court.

This was a suit for mandamus to compel the Comptroller of the .Currency to pay a dividend on a debt of the Miners’ National Bank of Georgetown, Colorado, an insolvent national bank. The question argued in this court' arises on the following facts:

The Miners’ National Bank of Georgetown was put into insolvency by the Comptroller' of the - Currency, and a receiver appointed about the 20th of December, 1875. It owed a large amount of debts, and among the rest about $60,000 to White, the relator, which the comptroller refused to allow. White thereupon brought…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Killian v. ClarkSupreme Court of the United States · 1884

3Cited by112 opinions

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  5. American Surety Co. v. Bethlehem National BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1941

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