TRAVELERS EXP. CO., INC. v. STATE OF MINN.

No. 81-1506.

664 F.2d 691 (1981)

TRAVELERS EXPRESS CO., INC., a Minnesota Corporation, Appellant, v. The STATE OF MINNESOTA and Jim Lord, Treasurer, State of Minnesota, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett, Curtis D. Forslund (argued), George W. Soule, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Karen G. Schanfield (argued), Robert R. Nardi, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, Minn., for appellee.

Before GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, BRIGHT and ROSS, Circuit Judges.


BRIGHT, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the narrow issue of whether the State of Minnesota has the right to custody of a fund held by Travelers Express Company (Travelers) representing unclaimed money orders issued outside Minnesota. The federal statute, 12 U.S.C. § 2503 (1976), authorizes each state to take custody of sums payable on unclaimed money orders to the extent of the state's power under its own laws.1 Travelers contends...

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