General Baking Co. v. Harr, 300 U.S. 433 (1937)

General Baking Co. v. Harr


No. 559


Argued March 5, 1937
Decided March 29, 1937
300 U.S. 433

CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT

Syllabus

Diverse citizenship and the requisite jurisdictional amount being present, a district court has jurisdiction of a suit by a depositor to fasten a trust on funds in an insolvent state bank notwithstanding that the bank had been taken over by a state official for liquidation pursuant to the state law. Commonwealth Trust Co. v. Bradford, 297 U.S. 613. P. 434.

85 F. 2d 932, 934, reversed.

Certiorari, 299 U.S. 539, to review a judgment which reversed a judgment of the District Court and directed dismissal of the suit for the want of jurisdiction. See 9 F.Supp. 210, 214.