Tyler v. Walt

ROGERS, Justice.

Sterling P. Tyler sued Ernest W. Walt, the liquidators of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company and the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland, in solido, to recover certain bonds, or $7,000, the price thereof, which he alleged were intrusted by him to Walt as manager of the Holmes Store Branch of the Hibernia Bank & Trust Company, for safe-keeping in the vault of the bank, and which were converted by Walt to his own use. The suit was filed more than thirty days after plaintiff had made an unavailing written demand for the payment of his claim on the defendant liquidators and on…