Holden v. Metropolitan National Bank

This is an action of contract by the receivers of the Reading Savings Bank. The declaration alleges that certificates of shares of bank stock which belonged to the savings bank came into the hands of the defendant, and that the defendant sold said shareg.

The report shows that the defendant held and sold certificates of stock standing in its own name. It never had in its possession, or in any way meddled with, the certificates that stood in the name of the savings bank. It did not accept an assignment of those certificates, or a transfer of the stock they represented, and did not surrender the…