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EX PARTE WORCESTER NAT. BANK

No. 469.

279 U.S. 347 (1929)

EX PARTE WORCESTER COUNTY NATIONAL BANK OF WORCESTER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Newton D. Baker, with whom Mr. William T. Forbes was on the brief, for appellant.

Mr. F. Delano Putnam, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, with whom Messrs. Joseph E. Warner, Attorney General, and R. Ammi Cutter, Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, as amici curiae, by special leave of Court, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Attorney General and the First Judge of Probate of Worcester County.

Messrs. George P. Barse and F.G. Awalt filed a brief on behalf of Mr. John W. Pole, Comptroller of the Currency, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Messrs. Walter Wyatt and George B. Vest filed a brief on behalf of the Federal Reserve Board, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Mr. Robert F. Cogswell filed the brief of Mr. Carl Meyer on behalf of the Continental National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Worcester County National Bank is a consolidated banking corporation formed by uniting, on June 27, 1927, the Fitchburg Bank & Trust Company, a state institution of Massachusetts, and the Merchants National Bank of Worcester, a national bank of Worcester County, Massachusetts, under the Act of Congress of February 25, 1927, c. 191, 44 Stat. 1224, amending...

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