Legal Opinion
Schaeffer v. Sterling
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 17, 1939No. [No. 19, April Term, 1939.]PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDelaplaine, J.
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for Carroll County, overruling exceptions of Edgar H. Schaeffer and others to the second and third distribution accounts of the Bank Commissioner as receiver of the Pleasant Valley Bank of Carroll County.
In 1931, after Nevin W. Crouse, the cashier, had embezzled about $29,500 of the bank’s funds, Schaeffer was delegated by the board of directors to call upon the cashier’s parents, Samuel E. Crouse and Clara J. Crouse, with the object of restoring the loss. Accompanied by the attorney for the bank and an agent for the cashier’s bonding…
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