Foster v. Lincoln

WHEELER, District Judge.

The defendant Benjamin F. Lincoln was president of the’National Bank of Lyndon, Vt., and held 25 shares in the First National Bank of Deming, N. M., his bank *383held 50 shares, and other individuals and banks in his vicinity held shares. On September 15, 1891, a telegram came to the Lyndon bank urgently calling for $5,000 to be sent by telegraph in aid of the Deming bank, and which came to (.he knowledge of the defendant, and was considered by him and, others. On September 21st he transferred Ms stock in the Deming bank in equal parts to his five children, the other…