Walker v. Broderick

Plaintiffs as individual suitors bring action against defendant as an individual. Plaintiffs allege in the amended complaint that plaintiffs were stockholders of the Bank of the United States at a time when it was solvent; that while the bank was solvent defendant took office as Superintendent of Banks and thereafter was negligent in two respects:(1) He wholly failed to perform certain acts with the performance of which he was charged by statute. This negligence by omission is alleged in paragraphs 8, 9, 10 and 14.(2) He performed certain duties imposed by statute in a negligent way. This…