The Mechanics Bank of Alexandria v. LOUISA & MARIA SETON
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the county of Alexandria.* This suit was instituted on the Chancery side of the Circuit Court, by the appellees, complainants in that Court, against the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria; to compel them to permit a transfer to be made of three thousand dollars of the capital stock of the bank, standing in the name of Adam Lynn, and held by him as trustee of the complainants.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the county of Alexandria.* This suit was instituted on the Chancery side of the Circuit Court, by the appellees, complainants in that Court, against the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria; to compel them to permit a transfer to be made of three thousand dollars of the capital stock of the bank, standing in the name of Adam Lynn, and held by him as trustee of the complainants. The bill charges, that the complainants’ grandfather, John Wise, to make provision for the suppdrt of his children and grandchildren, had made sale, in 1815, of an establishment called the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
delivered the opinion of the Court.—
The appellees, who were the complainants in the Court below,, filed their bill against the Mechanics Bank of Alexandria, setting out- their right to three thousand .dollars of the Capital stock of that bank, which was standing in the name of Adam Lynn; but which was avowedly purchased and held\by him, as trustee for John Wise, the grandfather of the complainants, ánd from whom they derived their right and title to the stock in question. That they were desirous of having their stock transferred to their guardian, which the trustee, Adam Lynn, was willing to…
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