Dow v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to tRe District Court of thé United States for tke District of Colorado. From the record in this case it appears that in 1S93, and for some years previous thereto, Charles H. Dow was the president and Sidney B. MeOlnr-ken was the receiving .teller of the Commercial National Bank of Denver, Colo., and Orlando E. Miller was the president of the Miller I-Iernia Treatment Company, the headquarters of this company Being in the city of Denver.
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In Error to tRe District Court of thé United States for tke District of Colorado. From the record in this case it appears that in 1S93, and for some years previous thereto, Charles H. Dow was the president and Sidney B. MeOlnr-ken was the receiving .teller of the Commercial National Bank of Denver, Colo., and Orlando E. Miller was the president of the Miller I-Iernia Treatment Company, the headquarters of this company Being in the city of Denver. On the 18th day of July, 1893, the named bank closed its doors, and its affairs were placed in the hands of a receiver, appointed by tlio…
1Opinion of the CourtShiras, District Judge
The principal point relied on by plaintiffs in error in support of their contention that the trial court erred in the view of the law taken by it with respect to the counts charging a misapplication of the funds of the Commercial Bank is based upon those portions of the charge wherein it was said that:
“From the first hour that he <Dow) knew of iliis account, — know that the checks drawn by Mr. Miller were false and fictitious — if he allowed them to be accepted in his bank, lie thereby confessed his guilt, under this statute, of misapplying the funds of the bank. I say to you, gentlemen, that…
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