Deitrick v. Standard Surety & Casualty Co.

WILSON, Circuit Judge.

In this appeal there were involved four ,uits at law brought by the receiver of the Continental National Bank of Boston, afterward consolidated with the Boston National Bank and known as the Boston-Continental National Bank, against the defendant-appellee to recover on certain surety bonds issued by an agent of the defendant purporting to secure the payment of certain promissory notes discounted at the bank, and four suits in equity brought by the surety company to cancel said surety bonds, on the ground that they were fraudulently issued by the agent of the appellee…