Consolidated Rendering Co. v. McManus

The defendant is receiver of a national bank in process of liquidation. The laws of the United States permit the bringing, in some instances, of suits against national banks whose affairs-are being wound up, or the receivers of such banks, in state courts. Allen v. United States, 285 F., 678, 682; First National Bank v. Pahquioque Bank, 14 Wall., 383, 20 Law Ed., 840.

For example, it would be competent to ascertain, in a state court, the nature and extent of the interest asserted or sought to be acquired, in specific assets in a receiver’s hands. Earle v. Conway, 178 U. S., 456, 20 S. Ct.,…