Ellis v. Peoples National Bank

The first count in the declaration filed in this case alleges that Mackall M. Ellis was the assistant cashier and *391teller of the Peoples National Bank of Manassas, and that the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company was surety on his bond; that on December 15, 1933, the representatives of the bank and the bonding company informed Oscar D. Ellis, John P. Ellis, Raymond L. Ellis, and John W. Ellis, partners, trading as Ellis Bros., that Mackall M. Ellis, nephew to some of the partners and brother to others, had embezzled funds of the bank, and that unless the partners permitted the bank to…