Farmers' State Bank & Trust Co. v. Gorman Home Refinery

Plaintiff in error Farmers’ State Bank & Trust Company filed its suit against the 'Gorman Home Refinery, a so-called Massachusetts trust, and a large number of its shareholders, estimated by counsel at the bar to be in the neighborhood of 1,000, to -recover, amongst other things, against the individual shareholders upon a certain note executed in the name of the Gorman Home Refinery. The pleadings of the parties were lengthy and quite a .number of issues were presented, but in the view we have of the case no further statement is necessary. The trial court rendered judgment upon a verdict that…