Hazen v. Southern Hills National Bank

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

In 1963, the Comptroller of the Currency for the United States appointed defendant-appellee Greenfield as the conservator of the Southern Hills National Bank. The conservator closed the bank and later its assets were transferred to a new bank, Southern Hills National Bank of Tulsa. Plaintiff-appellant Ha-zen was an organizer of the old bank and at all pertinent times a stockholder and director thereof. Plaintiff sued the conservator and the new bank, in an Oklahoma state court, to rescind the transfer and to recover damages. The defendants removed the case to…