Legal Opinion

Orme & Okey v. Baker

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided June 12, 1906No. 9525Published

Error to the Circuit Court of Guernsey county. On the twenty-seventh day of August, 1904, the defendant in error commenced an action in the lower court against the plaintiffs in error to recover of them the sum of $283.00 and interest thereon from the fifteenth day of June, 1904, and the court was ashed to decree that this sum he paid in full as a preference over general creditors.

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Error to the Circuit Court of Guernsey county. On the twenty-seventh day of August, 1904, the defendant in error commenced an action in the lower court against the plaintiffs in error to recover of them the sum of $283.00 and interest thereon from the fifteenth day of June, 1904, and the court was ashed to decree that this sum he paid in full as a preference over general creditors. To support this prayer, Baker alleged in substance that on the thirteenth day of June, 1904, at about 3:30 o’clock p. m., he deposited in the said Commercial Bank the sum of $99.00 in cash, and at the same time…

1Opinion of the CourtPrice, J.

The Commercial Bank Company was incorporated under the laws of this state in March; 1901, and it organized by the stockholders electing five directors consisting of Leonard Orme, H. O. Barber, P. C. Patterson, William.Moss and Charles Bell. The directors promptly elected Leonard Orme, president, H. O. Barber, vice-president, William Moss, secretary, and Charles Bell-, treasurer. These directors and officers of the bank were afterwards re-elected to and occupied the same posi*343tions respectively, until the close of the bant on the thirteenth day of June, 1904, and subsequent thereto, but the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Martin v. WebbSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
  2. St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  3. Cragie v. . HadleyNew York Court of Appeals · 1885
  4. Holden v. . New York and Erie BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
  5. Loring v. BrodieMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883

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