Commonwealth v. Drake
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decree of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered December 24, 1884, in a suit wherein the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of J. R. Barksdale, treasurer, complainant, and J. C. Drake, M. M. Davis, J. O. Barham, and Abraham Levy, are defendants.
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Appeal from decree of circuit court of city of Richmond, rendered December 24, 1884, in a suit wherein the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the relation of J. R. Barksdale, treasurer, complainant, and J. C. Drake, M. M. Davis, J. O. Barham, and Abraham Levy, are defendants. The object of the suit is to annul the sale made by J. C. Drake of his interest in the firm of Davis, Drake & Co., to M. M. Davis and J. O. Barham, and the sale made by J. C. Drake of his interest in the firm of Levy, Davis & Drake, to M. M. Davis and Abraham Levy, as fraudulent and void, having been, as it is alleged, made by…
1Opinion of the CourtFauntleroy, J.
It appears from the record that J. C. Drake, one of the said defendants, was a director of the Planters and Mechanics Bank of Petersburg, Virginia, and a large stockholder thereof. The said bank was designated by the Governor of Virginia as a temporary depository of the public money of the State, and received a large sum of said money, amounting to over $100,000; for the safe-keeping and return of which, the said bank executed its bond to the Commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of $150,000, conditioned according to law, with the said J. C. Drake and others as sureties on the said bond.
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