KNOX, District Judge.
These four actions in equity are brought by receivers of national banks to recover funds now on deposit with the defendant, Chase National Bank of the City of New York. Since all four cases raise the same legal problems, discussion will be limited to the Baldwin case, with the conclusions to be considered as applicable to the other three.
In January, 1923, the Secretary of War, acting for the government of the Philippine Islands, opened...
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