United States v. Continental-American Bank & Trust Co.

PORTERIE, Judge.

The opinions in the same cases appearing at 67 F.Supp. 759 (sustaining the government in its motion for a summary judgment) and appearing at 161 F.2d 935 (reversing) should he read first, in order to know what the facts at issue were then and to catch the turn of thought of the instant opinion.

At the opening of the trial on the merits, defendants moved the court to sustain the motions for a summary judgment that the defendant banks had originally filed, but which the court had earlier overruled. Their contention was that, now with the circuit court’s expression on the…