First National Bank of Crown Point v. Camp

SPRECHER, Circuit Judge.

On June 23, 1970, the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States approved an application by the Mercantile National Bank of Indiana for permission to construct a branch bank in an unincorporated area adjacent to the city of Crown Point, Indiana. The appellants in this case, the First National Bank of Crown Point and the Commercial Bank of Crown Point, raised objections to Mercantile’s application at the Comptroller’s informal hearing on the matter and renewed their objections in an administrative review procedure before the district court. The district court…