Legal Opinion
Janssen v. Bank of PittsBurgh Nat. Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided September 27, 1940No. 7294PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CLARK, Circuit Judge.
An inconsistency appears in the very fact of this litigation. Defendant is a national bank in receivership under the pertinent statute, 12 U.S.C.A. §§ 191-194. Plaintiffappellees are the members of a well-known firm of architects in Pittsburgh, the home city of the bank. In 1927 a merger (a sign of those times) gave the bank additional acreage. Again a sign of those times, the first thought of the 30 directors of the combined bank was a building suitable to the new enterprise. That building was envisaged in elaborate plans for a building, “a block long”, prepared by the…
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