Exchange Bank v. Gardner
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Decatur District Court. — Hon. H. M. Towner, Judge. Action in equity for an accounting, and to recover of the defendant C. E. Gardner, fifteen thousand dollars on account of poor investments made by Mm as cashier of the plaintiff bank. There was a hearing on the merits, and a judgment in favor of the defendants for costs. The plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, J.
The plaintiff the Exchange Bank of Leon is a co-partnership, which was organized in the year 1888, with a capital of thirty thousand dollars, and is engaged in business at Leon. The partners who composed the firm were the plaintiffs S. W. Hurst, I. N. Clark, H. J. Vogt, Orr Sang, C. S. Stearns, and the defendants 0. E. Gardner and R. D. Gardner. The person last named is the father of his co-defendant, and is made a defendant because he would not join as plaintiff. No relief is asked as against him. Therefore, when we refer to “Gardner,” C. E. Gardner is the person intended. Gardner was…
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