National City Bank of Chicago v. Wagner
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; George A. Carpenter, Judge. Suit in equity by Laura G. Rogers against the National City Bank of Chicago, L. H. Grimme, Thor R. Thorsen, G. L. Wire, and E. W. Wagner and Paul Tietgens, partners as E. W. Wagner & Co. Cross-appeals by the Bank, Grimme, Thorsen, and Wire, and by complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Circuit Judge.
These cases grow out of the remarkable career in high financing of a youth just approaching manhood, one Butler Storke. It is unnecessary to detail his swindling operations. Suffice it to say that he managed, by a series of more or less plausible misrepresentations and deceptions, to become indebted to the appellant bank in a large sum of money and also fraudulently to secure possession, under a trust receipt, of a stock certificate indorsed in blank, theretofore pledged by him with appellees Wagner and Tiet-gens, stockbrokers, doing business as E. W. Wagner & Co. This…
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