State National Bank v. United States
United States Court of Claims
The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, in February and March, 1867, was a banking association and body corporate, duly established and organized under the laws of the United States, and having its place of business in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. II.
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The Reporters’ statement of tbe case: The following are the facts of the case as found by the court: I. The claimant, in February and March, 1867, was a banking association and body corporate, duly established and organized under the laws of the United States, and having its place of business in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. II. At the same time there was in Boston a firm of brokers, doing business under the name and style of Mellen, Ward & Co., of which firm Edward Garter was the junior member. III. At the same time George D. Whittle was the chief clerk in the office of the assistant…
1Opinion of the Court
Drake, Oh. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court:
This case presents the third development of that most extraordinary scheme of conspiracy and fraud which was acted out in the city of Boston on the 28th of February and the 1st of March, 1867, between Edward Carter, a broker, the chief party, of the firm of Mellen, Ward & Co., and Julius F. Hartwell, the cashier in the office of the United States Assistant Treasurer in that city. Two other branches of that scheme have been before this court, in The State National Bank of BostoNs Case (10 . C. CJs. B., 519) and The First National Bank of…
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