Pierce Butler

“ St. § 1233a) , providing that no court of the United States shall have jurisdiction of any suit by or against any railroad company upon the ground that such company was incorporated under an act of Congress, and by section 12 of the Act of February 13, 1925. The government owns all the capital stock of petitioner and suits by or against it are plainly within the reasons which prompted the enactment of the proviso in section 12. There is no warrant for an inference that by section 201 (c) Congress intended to take suits by or against Federal Intermediate Credit Banks out of the general rule. ”

“ Section 24 (16) of the Judicial Code gives District Courts original jurisdiction of all cases commenced by the United States or by direction of any officer thereof against any national banking association and of cases for winding up any such bank, and of all suits brought by any banking association to enjoin the Comptroller of the Currency or any receiver acting under his direction. ”

“ United States Bank, 9 Wheat. 738, 816, 6 L. Ed. 204; American Bank & Trust Co. v. Federal Bank, 256 U.S. 350, 41 S.C.t. 499, 65 L. Ed. 983; Sowell v. Federal Reserve Bank, 268 U.S. 449, 45 S.C.t. 528, 69 L. Ed. ”