Edward Douglass White

“ Thus recognizing the right of the bank, consistently with the National Bank Act, to acquire the stock, and treating the power to sell it as being indisputably vested at least in the board of directors, the court adhered to the opinion which it had previously expressed that the power in the cashier to make the sale in question was susceptible of being deduced by fair implication from the rules adopted by the board of directors for the government of the business of the bank and from the circumstances of the case. ”

“ McBoyle and his wife sued the bank to recover 599 shares of the stock of the Burnham-standeford Company, which it was alleged they had purchased from the bank, and which, after payment of the cash part of the price, had been placed with it as collateral to secure a note evidencing the credit price. ”

“ Rep. 500; Capital Nat. Bank v. First Nat. Bank, 172 U.S. 425, 43 L. ed. 502, 19 Sup. Ct. Rep. 202. It follows, therefore, that as there is nothing within our competency to review, the writ of error must be and it is dismissed for want of jurisdiction. ”