Dresser v. Bates
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; George H. Bingham, Judge. Suit by John L. Bates, receiver of the National City Bank of Cambridge, Mass., against George W. Gale, Clarence Alfred Bunker and others, and Edwin Dresser, who died after suit was begun, but before final decree; the suit being revived against his administrator.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; George H. Bingham, Judge. Suit by John L. Bates, receiver of the National City Bank of Cambridge, Mass., against George W. Gale, Clarence Alfred Bunker and others, and Edwin Dresser, who died after suit was begun, but before final decree; the suit being revived against his administrator. From a decree for complainant (229. Fed. 772) for $283,218.20 against all of the defendants, the defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
DODGE, Circuit Judge.
These are appeals from the District Court, in a suit’ in equity by the receiver of the National City Bank of Cambridge, brought: in 1910 under section 24, par. 16, of the Judicial Code (Act March 3, 1911, c. 231, 36 Stat. 1092 [Comp. St. 1916, §■ 991(16)]). Each of the five defendants named in the bill w^as a director of said bank during the whole or some part of the period between November, 1906, and February, 1910. The defendants Edwin Dresser, Sumner Dresser, and George W. Gale were directors, and Edwin Dresser was president, during the whole of said period, and for…
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