FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA T. CO. v. PHILADELPHIA-GIRARD NAT. BANK

No. 4049.

33 F.2d 649 (1929)

FIDELITY-PHILADELPHIA TRUST CO. et al. v. PHILADELPHIA-GIRARD NAT. BANK.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 15, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Percival H. Granger, Reber, Granger & Montgomery, Breeding, Burkhardt & Harris, and Roberts & Montgomery, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Arthur Littleton, of Philadelphia, Pa. (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, of Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellee.

Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.


WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.

The District Court dismissed the plaintiffs' bill praying that the defendant bank pay to them, as trustees in bankruptcy of the maker of several promissory notes, the market value of the pledged collateral which the defendant bank, holder of the notes, had sold and, as they claimed, had unlawfully converted. The plaintiffs appealed.

The defendant bank, which we shall call the "city bank," is a national banking institution organized...

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