First National Bank v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters'* statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts as found by tbe court: I. At tbe time of tbe occurrence of tbe matters berinafter detailed, tbe First National Bank of Newton (wbicb hereafter., in these findings, will, for brevity, be styled tbe Newton Bank) was a banking association organized and in operation under tbe laws of the United States, located at Newtonville, in tbe town of Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 5 and E. Porter Dyer, jr., was…
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The Reporters'* statement of tbe case: Tbe following are tbe facts as found by tbe court: I. At tbe time of tbe occurrence of tbe matters berinafter detailed, tbe First National Bank of Newton (wbicb hereafter., in these findings, will, for brevity, be styled tbe Newton Bank) was a banking association organized and in operation under tbe laws of the United States, located at Newtonville, in tbe town of Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 5 and E. Porter Dyer, jr., was cashier, and tbe hereinafter-named Edward Carter was one of tbe directors of said bank. • II. At tbe same time the Eliot…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Ch. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
In State National Bank v. United States (10 C. Cls. R., 519) is spread at large the history of one branch of a scheme of embezzlement, conspiracy, and fraud which is probably unsurpassed by any case in the reports of this country.
In the present case, the finding of facts gives at large the history of another branch of the same scheme, devised and carried out by two of the parties to the former one, but with a ■different third party.
The two leading conspirators, in each case, were Edward ■Carter, of the firm of Mellen, Ward & Co., and Julius F.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- United States v. State BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
- State National Bank of Boston v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1874
3Cited by3 opinions
- Lupfer v. StateNew York Court of Claims · 1922
- Colman v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1903
- State National Bank v. United StatesUnited States Court of Claims · 1889