Brown v. Daugherty
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Missouri
This is an action by the plaintiff to recover from the defendants, as trustees of the Bank of Carterville, the sum of $4,000, alleged to have been deposited to the plaintiff’s credit in said bank in June, 1895. The petition alleges that in April, 1897, said bank, a Missouri corporation, by resolution of its stockholders, went into voluntary liquidation, and was thereby dissolved; that at the time of said dissolution the defendant Daugherty was president, and the other…
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This is an action by the plaintiff to recover from the defendants, as trustees of the Bank of Carterville, the sum of $4,000, alleged to have been deposited to the plaintiff’s credit in said bank in June, 1895. The petition alleges that in April, 1897, said bank, a Missouri corporation, by resolution of its stockholders, went into voluntary liquidation, and was thereby dissolved; that at the time of said dissolution the defendant Daugherty was president, and the other defendants were directors, of said corporation, and were the exclusive managers thereof; and that at the time of the…
1Opinion of the Court
PHILIPS, District Judge.
That the $4,000 deposited by Joseph Brown in the Bank of Carterville was the money of the plaintiff, .the court is well satisfied. The plaintiff was a widow at the time of her marriage with Joseph Brown. She inherited from her first husband a small farm and some personal property situate in the state of Kansas, where she then resided. Joseph Brown at the time of his marriage to the plaintiff was practically impecunious. His only estate, according to his testimony, consisted in a claim to some land which he had entered in Kansas, which he sold, shortly after his…
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