MARICOPA COUNTY v. VALLEY BANK

No. 449.

318 U.S. 357 (1943)

MARICOPA COUNTY ET AL. v. VALLEY NATIONAL BANK OF PHOENIX.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 1, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Gerald Jones and Leslie C. Hardy, with whom Messrs. Joe Conway, Attorney General of Arizona, Harold R. Scoville, Richard F. Harless and J. Mercer Johnson were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. J.L. Gust, with whom Messrs. Charles L. Rawlins and William C. Fitts were on the brief, for respondent.

Solicitor General Fahy, Assistant Attorney General Clark, and Messrs. Sewall Key, J. Louis Monarch, John D. Goodloe, Hans A. Klagsbrunn, and Max Hersh filed a brief on behalf of the United States, as amicus curiae, urging affirmance.


MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

Petitioners are counties of the state of Arizona and certain county officers. Respondent is a national banking association incorporated under the laws of the United States and having its principal banking house at Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona. It sued petitioners1 to restrain the collection of certain state, county, school district and...

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