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UNITED STATES v. SECURITY-FIRST NAT. BANK OF LOS ANGELES

Civ. A. No. 16084.

130 F.Supp. 521 (1955)

UNITED STATES of America, as Trustee for the General Post Fund; and Harvey v. Higley, as Administrator of Veterans Affairs, Plaintiffs, v. SECURITY-FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LOS ANGELES, a national banking association, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

March 30, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laughlin E. Waters, U. S. Atty., for the Southern District of California, by Max F. Deutz and Andrew J. Davis, Jr., Assts. U. S. Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for United States, as Trustee for the General Post Fund, and Harvey v. Higley, as Administrator of Veterans Affairs.

Edmund G. Brown, Atty. Gen., of the State of California, by John F. Hassler, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., appeared as amicus curiae on behalf of the State of California.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Balthis, by Cameron W. Cecil, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant.

TOLIN, District Judge.

This is an action by the United States to recover from the defendant bank a certain sum deposited in the bank by one Theodore Morris, now deceased. The Government claims that on the death of Morris, it became the owner of this deposit by virtue of a contract between the deceased and the Veterans Administration, but that the defendant has refused to pay such amount to the United States.

The defendant answered, admitting the deposit to...

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