Trustees of Mutual Building Fund & Dollar Savings Bank v. Bosseiux
District Court, E.D. Virginia
In Equity. Demurrer to the Bill.
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, D. J.
The Mutual Building Fund & Dollar Savings Bank of Richmond suspended payments in September, 1873; made an assignment in liquidation in January, 1874; and was adjudicated a bankrupt by this court on the twenty-sixth of Mareh, 1874. The complainants were appointed in due course of proceedings as trustees, instead of assignees, in bankruptcy, and brought this bill within the period of two years, limited by law.
■ The bill is brought against 14 defendants, alleged to have been directors in the years 1872 and 1873. It sets out a series of acts ultra vires; charges gross negligence and…
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