Federal Deposit Ins. Corporation v. Mason

MARIS, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania dismissing its action at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence on the ground that upon the facts and the law the plaintiff had shown no right to relief. The plaintiff is the receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Bradford, Pennsylvania, hereinafter called the bank. It seeks by amended bill in equity to recover from former directors of the hank $120,000 in dividends alleged to have been unlawfully declared by the directors and to obtain an accounting for…