Zinn v. Baxter
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Circuit Court of Allen county. On the tenth day of September, 1897, the plaintiff, Walter Zinn, filed his petition in the court of common pleas against the persons who were directors of the First National Bank of Lima, Ohio, during the years 1893 and 1894, and also made the hank a party defendant.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Allen county. On the tenth day of September, 1897, the plaintiff, Walter Zinn, filed his petition in the court of common pleas against the persons who were directors of the First National Bank of Lima, Ohio, during the years 1893 and 1894, and also made the hank a party defendant. The petition is as follows, omitting the caption, signature and verification, and also omitting the averments as to who were the officers and directors during those years, and which averments are contained in paragraphs numbered from five to thirteen, inclusive: “First. Walter Zinn, the…
1Opinion of the CourtRuexcbt, J.
It will be noticed by reading this petition that the bank in question was and is organized under the national banking act, that the plaintiff was a stockholder when the wrongs of which he complains took place, that the defendant directors were at that time directors of said bank, and that all were *362controlled and governed by that. act. The rights of the bank and of its stockholders, as well as the liabilities of its officers and directors, were fixed and imposed by that act alone, and therefore the statutes of Ohio, the common law, and rules of equity, as to such rights and liabilities, have…
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