Spokane County v. First Nat. Bank of Spokane
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the District of Washington. This was a suit by the county of Spokane, Wash., against the First National Dank of Spokane and F. Lewis Clark, its receiver, to impress a trust upon assets of the bank in the receiver’s hands. The circuit court sustained a demurrer to the bill for want of equity. Complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The county of Spokane brought a suit against the First National Bank of Spokane and its receiver to recover the balance of public funds deposited with said hank by the treasurer and tax collector of said county between the 9th day of January, 3893, and the 20th day of July of the same year, alleging that between said dates there was deposited with said hank by said officer for safe-keeping $81,257.55, all of which had been repaid to the complainant save and except the sum of f13,355.(58, “which said sum the said defendant the First National Bank does now wrongfully…
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