Legal Opinion
Territory of Alaska v. First Nat. Bank
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 31, 1927No. 5159PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIETRICH, Circuit Judge.
Sustaining a demurrer, the lower court entered judgment dismissing an alternative writ of mandamus directed to the defendant, a national banking association in Alaska, requiring it to disclose to the Attorney General of the territory certain dead accounts in the course of an investigation he was making to determine whether they had escheated to the territory. Plaintiff brings error.
No point is made touching the propriety of the proceeding, or the formal sufficiency of the record (Comp. Laws'of Alaska, 1913, §§ 1384-1397), and we are therefore concerned only with…
2Cases cited18 opinions
- Maynard v. HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
- National Bank v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Late Corp. of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- First National Bank in St. Louis v. MissouriSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Guthrie v. HarknessSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Union Trust Co. of Pittsburgh CaseSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1948
- In re Annexation of SlatervilleDistrict Court, D. Alaska · 1949
- Territory of Alaska v. First Nat. BankCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1930