Grow v. Cockrill
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Robert J'. Lea, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Jennie Grow, had a credit in the First National Bank of Little Rock, in February, 1892, and on the 15th of that month wrote to H. G. Allis, then president of that bank, addressing him in his individual capacity, however, and made inquiry of him as to how much the bank would pay as interest for the loan of her money, or language to that effect.
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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court. Robert J'. Lea, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, Jennie Grow, had a credit in the First National Bank of Little Rock, in February, 1892, and on the 15th of that month wrote to H. G. Allis, then president of that bank, addressing him in his individual capacity, however, and made inquiry of him as to how much the bank would pay as interest for the loan of her money, or language to that effect. This letter seems to have been answered on the 24th by W. C. Denny, who was then cashier, and he informed her, among other things, “that the bank would pay…
1Opinion of the Court
Bunn, C. J.,
(after stating the facts.) The complaint, in brief, charges that the bank and its president, contemplating insolvency, and desiring to keep plaintiff’s money from being checked out of the bank by her, combined with its cashier, and entered into a conspiracy to deceive her, and to induce her to allow her money to remain in the bank, to be used by its president; and to accomplish this scheme the cashier, with the connivance of the president of the bank, wrote to appellant, at Washington, D. C., proposing to lend out her money on good security, and, she assenting to this arrangement,…
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