Security Bank v. National Bank of the Commonwealth

A receiver was appointed under the national currency act ( Vol. 13, U. S. Statutes at Large, 115), of the books, assets and records of the defendant, as an insolvent national banking association, in September, 1873; and he entered upon the discharge of his duties in that capacity. After that, and on the 4th of March, 1874, the summons in this action was served upon George Ellis, the defendant’s president, and he, to use his own language concerning his singular and extraordinary conduct following the service, supposing- that his connection with the bank ceased by the appointment of the…