Legal Opinion

Berger v. Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided July 24, 1939No. 259PublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal, by five receivers or liquidators of closed national banks from decrees *1002dismissing their complaints in five suits consolidated for trial, and tried together below, attacks the validity of pledges by national banks given to secure deposits of the Philippine Government.

The character of the claims involved and the issues raised in all the suits are substantially the sanie. Each of the closed banks, prior to its insolvency, had been designated a depositary of funds of the Philippine Government by an order of the Secretary of War of the United States— purporting to…

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