Curtis v. Metcalf
District Court, D. Rhode Island
In Equity. Action by Rensselaer E- Curtis, receiver of Atlantic National Bank of Providence, R. I., against Edward P. Metcalf and others. On motion to dismiss the bill or strike out.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
This is a bill in equity against former directors of the Atlantic National Bank of Providence, R. I., charging them with responsibility for mismanagement. The defendants Connly, Smith, and Swanson had ceased to be directors more than seven years and six months before the filing of the bill, and the defendants A. W. Dennis, Fletcher, and Wellman more than six years and six months.
[1] Though the suit is by bill in equity, it seeks to charge the defendants upon legal, as distinguished from equitable, grounds of liability. Therefore the claims of these defendants to the…
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