Terry v. Abraham

On the twelfth day of July, 1869, Harvey Terry, the appellant, filed his bill in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia against the Merchants’, and Planters’ Bank and Hiram Roberts. The bill purported to be brought in behalf of plaintiff and all others in like condition with himself who would unite and contribute to the. expenses of the proceeding. It sets out. as the foundation of plaintiff’s rights, that he is the owner and holder of a considerable amount of the circulating notes of the bank; that the bank, since 1866, has been" insolvent, and refused to redeem its bills;…