Agricultural Bank v. Robinson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
This action was against Henry K. Robinson and Putnam Wilson, and was, like the two preceding, submitted by the parties to the decision of the Court upon the facts stated in the deposition of Cornelius Bedlow, jr. formerly cashier of the Agricultural Bank. . The facts in this case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
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This action was against Henry K. Robinson and Putnam Wilson, and was, like the two preceding, submitted by the parties to the decision of the Court upon the facts stated in the deposition of Cornelius Bedlow, jr. formerly cashier of the Agricultural Bank. . The facts in this case are stated in the opinion of the Court. Unlike the two preceding cases, no shares in the bank were conveyed to the defendants, nor to any other person or corporation at their request, or in trust for them. J. The note declared on is void, it having been made in substitution for one given in violation of the statute…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of a majority of the Court, Whitman C. J. dissenting therefrom, for reasons given, ante, p. 271, in an opinion with reference to this and the two preceding cases, was drawn up by
Shepley J.
This suit is upon a promissory note for the sum of ten thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, made by the defendants on April 1, 1838, payable to the bank, or order, in six months after date. The case is submitted, as an agreed statement, upon the deposition of the former cashier of the bank. He states, in substance, that five persons named, and one firm composed of…
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