Cooper v. McNair

STRUM, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity, a ihotion to dismiss the bill being now under consideration.

While it was a going concern, the First National Bank of St. Augustine employed plaintiff, an attorney, to represent it in certain litigation against the receiver of Farmers’ Bank & Trust Company of West Palm Beach, seeking to establish a preferred claim in favor of the St. Augustine Bank against the assets of the Farmers’ Bank, the latter bank being then in process of liquidation.

Plaintiff instituted suit pursuant to his employment by the St. Augustine Bank, his duties therein…