FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN PLANT CITY
v.
DICKINSON, COMPTROLLER OF FLORIDA, ET AL.
Supreme Court of United States.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
Argued October 16, 1969.
Decided December 9, 1969.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert S. Edwards argued the cause and filed briefs for petitioner in No. 19. Deputy Solicitor General Springer argued the cause for petitioner in No. 34. With him on the briefs were Solicitor General Griswold, Assistant Attorney General Ruckelshaus, Robert V. Zener, and Robert E. Kopp.
William Reece Smith, Jr., argued the cause for respondents in both cases. With him on the brief was V. Carroll Webb.
James F. Bell, by special leave of Court, argued the cause for the National Association of Supervisors of State Banks as amicus curiae urging affirmance in both cases. With him on the brief was Brian C. Elmer.
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr., filed a brief for the First National Bank of Cornelia, Georgia, et al. as amici curiae urging reversal in both cases.
Briefs of amici curiae urging affirmance in both cases were filed by Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General of Georgia, Harold N. Hill, Jr., Executive Assistant Attorney General, J. Robert Coleman and Robert J. Castellani, Assistant Attorneys General, Robert Morgan, Attorney General of North Carolina, and Millard R. Rich, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the States of Georgia and North Carolina, and by Horace R. Hansen for the Independent Bankers Association of America et al.
Supreme Court of United States.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE BURGER delivered the opinion of the Court.
In these cases we are called upon to construe § 7 of the McFadden Act of 1927, 44 Stat. 1228, as amended, 12 U. S. C. § 36, as it relates to the definition of a branch bank for the purpose of determining the scope of branch banking available to a national bank in a State that prohibits branches for state banks.
12 U. S. C. § 36 (f) provides in pertinent part:
"(f) The term...
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