Brown v. McCulloch

The appellant and complainant, Mary B. Brown, sues the defendants H. H. McCulloch and others in her own behalf and for other Tennessee stockholders of the Franklin Savings !& Loan Bank, Incorporated, a Tennessee corporation, to recover upon a bond executed by the corporation and by the defendants, its officers, as sureties to the State Department of Insurance and Banking.

The determinative question presented is whether the bond was executed by the corporation and the defendants as sureties voluntarily or involuntarily, or because of duress imposed upon them by the representatives of the…