Bliss v. United States

GARDNER, Circuit Judge.

In this case, the United States brought suit against the appellant, as receiver of the Nebraska State Bank of Humboldt, Neb., to recover certain postal funds of the United States which had been deposited in said hank while it was a going concern, and asked decree adjudging its claim to he a prior one over other creditors, under section 3466 Revised Statutes, title 31, USCA § 191. The facts are not in dispute and appear in the record from the admitted allegations of the pleadings, supplemented by written stipulation of the parties.

The Nebraska State Bank of Humboldt,…