Hawkins

The appellee, Washington-Alaska Bank, is a corporation organized under the laws of Nevada, and was on January 5, 1911, doing a general banking business at Fairbanks, in the territory of Alaska. On that date the Tanana Valley Railroad Company and John Zug, being creditors, and the latter a stockholder, of the bank, instituted a suit against the bank for dissolution, with a view of finally winding out its business. As a means to that end, the appellees F. W. Hawkins and E. H. Mack were appointed receivers of its properties and effects. The appellee Fred G. Noyes was later appointed receiver to succeed Hawkins and Mack. Prior to the institution of this suit the Dexter Horton National Bank was its correspondent at Seattle, Wash. The former bank, on December 24, 1910, had largely overdrawn its account with the latter, and, upon the insistence of the latter, the former on the 26th, 28th, and 30th days of December delivered to the Yukon Express Company, a common carrier, three packages in gold coin, currency, and bullion, aggregating $101,000, consigned to Dexter Horton National Bank, at Seattle, Wash., charges prepaid. The packages were forwarded by the express company from Fairbanks to…