American Barrel Co. v. Commissioner of Banks

This suit in equity was brought in the Superior Court by the plaintiff, the payee of certain checks, against the commissioner of banks in possession of the property and business of the Salem Trust Company, the Federal National Bank of Boston, in the hands of Herbert Pearson, receiver, and the drawers of such checks to enjoin the defendant Federal National Bank of Boston from bringing suit thereon, and the drawers from making payments thereon to the defendant bank or its receiver, and to order said defendant bank to deliver these checks to the plaintiff. By amendment the receiver was joined as…