Tanner v. West

In 1922, the defendant, West, was a State Bank Examiner and in that capacity made an examination of the Bank of Dearborn, at Dearborn, Missouri. He found a shortage in the accounts and assets of the bank. The bank was closed temporarily but later reorganized, reopened and continued in business under the same name. Henry C. Woodward, the original plaintiff, was a director and had been president of the bank for some four or five years consecutively prior to February, 1922, and thereafter continued as a director until the reorganization. That the bank might be reopened and to cover a certain…