FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. CORPORATION v. TREMAINE

No. 140.

133 F.2d 827 (1943)

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INS. CORPORATION v. TREMAINE et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

February 4, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Bennett, Jr., Atty. Gen., of New York, William C. Chanler, Corp. Counsel of City of New York, Berle & Berle, and Adolf A. Berle, Jr., all of New York City (James S. Regan, Howard F. R. Mulligan, and Hyman Wank, Asst. Attys. Gen., and Seymour B. Quel, Bernard Newman, Hortense M. Wittstein, and Winthrop H. Kellogg, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Sidney R. Nussenfeld, of New York City (Francis C. Brown, and Russell D. Miller, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellee.

Before L. HAND, CHASE and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the defendants from a summary judgment, holding them liable for the conversion of certain bonds which had belonged to the Fort Greene National Bank of Brooklyn, N. Y. and which it had pledged as security for deposits made with it. The deposits were of moneys which had been paid into state courts in actions between private persons: payments for the benefit of infants in actions for personal injuries, or of beneficiaries...

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