Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Conner

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

The sole question raised by this appeal, as stated by appellant, is: “Where a state bank was named as a co-executor and trustee under a will, and duly qualified thereunder as such co-executor and entered upon the discharge of its duties as such, and subsequently was converted into a national bank, did the national bank continue as the co-executor and the trustee, with the right and power to continue so to act?”

The carefully prepared order of Honorable Wm. H. Grim-ball, Judge of the Ninth Circuit, correctly answers this question in the…