Cooper v. Hill
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This is an appeal from a decree for the payment of the sum of $35,093.-1.5, interest thereon, and costs, by John J. Reithmann, George Tritch, Job A. Cooper, I). C. Dodge, and John Good, to the appellee, Zoph.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado. This is an appeal from a decree for the payment of the sum of $35,093.-1.5, interest thereon, and costs, by John J. Reithmann, George Tritch, Job A. Cooper, I). C. Dodge, and John Good, to the appellee, Zoph. T. Hill, as receiver of the German National Bank of Denver, on account of the misappropriation of the funds of that bank in 1888 and 1889. All the parties against whom this decree was rendered have appealed to this court except Reithmann, who appears to be content with the result below. The decree rests upon…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The bill in this suit contains averments sufficient to warrant a recovery on the ground of an unauthorized use of the funds of the *585bank to prospect for and to develop a mine on its property, and also on the ground of a willful misapxiropriation of its funds for the use and benefit of the appellants. We dismiss the latter ground on the threshold of this discussion, because the evidence fails to satisfy us that any of the appellants ever intended to obtain any pecuniary ad van (age or to make any personal gain out of the transactions under consideration at the expense of the bank, and because,…
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