Dehne v. Mine Safety Appliance Co.

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The appellee, receiver of the First National Bank of Wilkinsburg, brought suit to recover alleged preferential payments made by the bank to the appellant while the bank was insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency. A jury trial was waived. On March 6, 1933, the bank suspended its usual and normal banking operations pursuant to the Presidential Proclamation. It never thereafter procured a license “to reopen. On March 23, 1933, the Comptroller of the Currency appointed a…