J'EDEBAL REPORTER,
vol. 65.
We conclude, therefore, that it was no impairment of the original contract of dedication for the state, by act of the legislature, to substitute as trustee another local authority in place of the city to control the special public use to which this particular section of the square might be applied. The monument commissioners, in selecting that site, are therefore acting within the power lawfully conferred, and have a right to proceed with the work already begun. The temporary restraining order heretofore allowed will be set aside, and the awlication for a preliminary injunction be denied. The conclusion we have reached is in accordance with the principles of law involved as we understand them, after patient examination. Our personal views as to whether the location chosen is the best and most suitable have not in the least influenced us. Those are considerations not presented in the record, and upon them we have no right to express an opinion. It is with the law of the case alone that we have dealt.
ERIE & W. R. Co. v. INDIANAPOLIS NAT. BANK et a1.
(Circuit Court, D. Indiana. No. 8,973. 1.' EQUTTY PLEADING-REPI,ICATION.
February 27, 1895.)
Where a cause is set down for hearing on bill and answer, no replication having been filet'!, then the answer is to be taken as true in all its material allegations, whether responsive or not; otherwise the defendant would be precluded from proving the allegations which are only defensive. Banks v. Manchester, 9 Sup. at. 36, 128 U. S. 244, cited.
2.
INSOLVEKT BANK-PAYMENT OF DEPOSITOR·
.A. depositor is entitled to a preference in payment 01' the assets 01' a bank in the hands of a receiver where the deposit was made at a time when the bank was hopelessly insolvent, and the fact of such insolvency had been concealed by the bank. Wasson v. Hawkins, 00 Fed. 233, follOWed.
8.
SAME.
In such case the whole of the deposit is charged with a trust, and an equal amount may be recovered from the receiver, who has received the specific money among the general mass of the bank's funds.
Miller,Winter & Elam, W. E. Hackedorn, and John B. Cockrum, for complainant. Frank B. Burke and John W. Kern, for defendants. BAKER" District Judge. This case has been set down for hear· ing upon the bill and answer of Edward Hawkins, as receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank. When no replication is ilied by the plaintifl', and no h;sue is made upon the truth of the defendant's allegations, but the cause is set down for hearing on the bill and answer alone, then the answer is to be taken as true in all its rna· terial allegations, whether responsive or not; otherwise the defend· ant would be precluded from proving the allegations which are only defensive. Banks v. Manchester, 128 U. So 244, 9 Sup. Ct. 36; Brinkerhoff v. Brown, 7 Johns. Ch. 217,223; Perkins v. Nichols, 11 Allen, 542, 544. The bill seeks to have certain moneys and choses
NATIONAl. WATERWORKS CO. V. KANSAS CITY.
691
in action deposited with the Indianapolis National Bank on the 22d and 24th of July, 1893, declared to be entitled to preference in payment out of the assets of the bank in the receiver's hands. Such preference is claimed on the ground that when the deposits were made the bank was, and for a long time had been, hopelessly insolvent; that the plaintiff had no knowledge of such insolvency, which was concealed from it; and that such moneys, and the proceeds of the choses in action so deposited, had come into the custody and possession of the bank examiner who first took possession of the bank upon its failure,and that the same had come into the pos8essian of the receiver from such bank examiner. The principles applicable to the present case were fully considered by the court in Wasson v. Hawkins,59 Fed. 233. It was there held that where money and checks are unsuspectingly deposited in a bank which is known by its managing officers to be hopelessly insolvent, a short time before the closing hour on the last day on which it does business, and the checks are subsequently collected, the whole of the deposit is charged with a trust, and an equal amonnt may be recovered from the receiver, who has received the specific money among the general mass of the bank's funds. Applying the doctrine of that case to the facts disclosed by the bill and answer, I am of opinion that the complainant is entitled to have a decree declaring that the sum of $1,658.16 ought to be paid by the receiver out of the assets in his hands as a preferred claim, and that the residne of the complainant's claim is not entitled to preference, bnt ought to be allowed and paid pro rata with other unpreferred claims. A decree may be prepared in conformity with the foregoing views.
NATIONAL W
CO. v. KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY v. NATIONAL WATERWORKS CO. (Circuit Court, W. D. Missouri, W. D. February 12, 1895.)
1.
Nos. 1783, 1828. LICENSE-ESTOPPEL.
The M. Hy. Co. permitted a waterworks comnany to construct a pipf line along the right of way to which t!le railway company had title in fee With the full knowledge of the railway company, the waterworks company expended considerable sums jn the construction of such pipe line. and continued, without interference, to use the same for a number of yeuI"S in supplying a large city with water. Held, that the railway company would be estopped to revoke the license thus acted upon. The city of K. passed an ordinance permitting the N. Waterworks Co" in consideration of $10,000, to lay H!ld maintain pipes under the streetI'! of said city for the purpose of conveying water to another city. No limita· tion of time was expressed. The $10,000 was paid, and the pipes laid. The ordinance was passed under the authority of an act of the legislature. The third section of such act gave power to the city to gTaDt the riuht to construct and maintain waterworks for such city, and the right to'"construct and maintain pipes under the streets for conveying water to other cities. The fourth section enacted that no grant. under the third section, should continue more than 20 years, and that any such gt'ant
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STATUTES-CONSTRUCTION-SEPARATE :HATTERS IN SAME ACT.