Mount Vernon Bank v. Stone
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
In Equity. The Mount Vernon Bank was a Bank located in Foster, and the defendant was from the 8th of June 1844 to the 29th of May, 1850, their agent for the purpose of transacting the business of the Bank in the city of Providence, where the plaintiffs provided him with an office and hooks to be kept in the office, in which to record the business of his agency, and they paid him as such agent a salary of five hundred dollars per annum.
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In Equity. The Mount Vernon Bank was a Bank located in Foster, and the defendant was from the 8th of June 1844 to the 29th of May, 1850, their agent for the purpose of transacting the business of the Bank in the city of Providence, where the plaintiffs provided him with an office and hooks to be kept in the office, in which to record the business of his agency, and they paid him as such agent a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. The bill alleged first, that the defendant had not fully accounted and had refused to deliver and exhibit the books of the Bank to, the plaintiffs, and, in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGreene, C. J.
The bill in this case alleges the appointment of the defendant as agent of the plaintiffs, and states the business which he was to transact in that capacity. It alleges the purchase of books by the defendant, in which to record the business of his agency, and that such books were paid for by the defendant with the monies of the plaintiffs, and that the books are the property of the plaintiffs. The bill then alleges that the defendant has refused to deliver or exhibit to the plaintiffs the said books of account, and that the defendant has used the money and other property and credit of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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