Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“ When so important a grant of power contained in the prototype is left out from the copy it is almost impossible to attribute the omission to anything but design, or to believe that it left to very attenuated implications what the model before it so clearly expressed. ”

“ The national banks issue notes that constitute an important part of the currency of the country and that the United States has an interest in seeing paid. It is upon the bank's refusal to pay these notes that the Comptroller of the Currency is to appoint a receiver, and the authority to enforce the stockholder's liability adds a security to the national circulation that is of national scope. ”

“ The receiver had power to collect the assets of the bank, but the libility of stockholders is no part of those assets. It is a liability to creditors which the creditors may be left to enforce.
Decree reversed. ”