Fulton, Supt. of Bks. v. Wetzel

Frances Wetzel was plaintiff and the Union Trust Company et al. defendants in the court below, and we shall hereafter designate said Wetzel as plaintiff, and the bank as defendant, except when Ira J. Fulton, superintendent of banks, is directly referred to.

The Union Trust Company at all times herein mentioned was, and now is, one of the largest banks in the city of Cleveland, with a capitalization of $22,500,000, and has thousands of stockholders.

Plaintiff filed a petition in the form of a so-called “class suit” on the 25th day of March, 1933, against the bank and thirty-seven of its…