Armstrong v. Trautman
| Court | United States District Courts. 6th Circuit. United States District Courts. 6th Circuit. Southern District of Ohio |
| Citation | 36 F. 275 |
| Decision Date | 31 May 1888 |
| Parties | ARMSTRONG v. TRAUTMAN et al. |
36 F. 275
ARMSTRONG
v.
TRAUTMAN et al.
United States Circuit Court, S.D. Ohio, Western Division.
May 31, 1888
[36 F. 276]
JACKSON, J.
This case is before the court on the motion of defendants Frank Haffner and Christian Haffner to dismiss the petition for want of jurisdiction in this court to entertain the suit. The motion is based on two grounds, viz.: First, that the petitioner is a citizen of the same state with the defendants; and, secondly, that the amount claimed (being only $1,333.58) is insufficient to confer jurisdiction upon the court under the act of March 3, 1887. The petition shows that David Armstrong, a citizen of the Southern district of Ohio, is the duly appointed and qualified receiver of the Fidelity National Bank, of Cincinnati, Ohio, which was lately a corporation organized under the banking laws of the United States, and became the holder and owner of a certain check for $1,333.58, having date June 20, 1887, drawn by Trautman & Fischer on the German National Bank of Cincinnati to the order of the defendants Frank and Christian Haffner, under the firm name of F. & C. Haffner, and by them indorsed; that said check, which was the property of said Fidelity National Bank and a part of its assets which came into the possession of said receiver by virtue of his appointment, was duly presented at said German National Bank for payment; that the same was not paid; and that said drawers and indorsers had due notice thereof. The question presented by the motion of the defendants Frank and Christian Haffner to dismiss the petition for want of jurisdiction is whether, under the act of March 3, 1887, a receiver of a national bank may maintain a suit in this court, without reference to the citizenship of the parties and of the amount involved, to recover a claim or demand due the national bank, whose assets have been transferred or assigned to him by operation of law under his appointment.
Prior to the act of March 3, 1887, this was not an open question. It was well settled by several decisions on the circuit, under the act of March 3, 1875, and prior acts, that receivers of national banks, being officers of the United States, could maintain such actions without regard to the citizenship of the parties or the amount involved in the suit. Frelinghuysen v. Baldwin, 12 F. 395; Price v. Abbott, 17 F. 506. In this last case the subject was fully reviewed by Mr. Justice GRAY, and the jurisdiction of the circuit court was...
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