President of City Bank v. Bangs
New York Court of Chancery
This case arose before the Chancellor. The President, Directors and Company of the City Bank had filed a bill of interpleader; and paid into court the sum of seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and ninety cents, being the proportion of a reward of ten thousand dollars offered by them for the recovery of a large sum which had been stolen from the bank.
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This case arose before the Chancellor. The President, Directors and Company of the City Bank had filed a bill of interpleader; and paid into court the sum of seven thousand four hundred and sixty dollars and ninety cents, being the proportion of a reward of ten thousand dollars offered by them for the recovery of a large sum which had been stolen from the bank. After the chancellor had ordered a reference to a master, for the purpose of ascertaining who, amongst the defendants, was entitled to the fund: (See 2. Paige’s C. R. 570.) The cause was referred to his honor the Vice-Chancellor of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Vice-Chancellor:
All the parties who are defendants in this cause have taken exceptions to the master’s report. Those, of the defendant Henry Bangs, go to exclude the defendants Jacob Hays, Zebulon Homan, Benjamin J. Hays and Maria Van Riper from any participation in the reward which had been offered by the complainants; claiming, for himself alone, the whole of the amount. The exceptions taken by Hays, Homan and Benjamin J. Hays, jointly, do not extend to the entire exclusion of Bangs, for they admit his right to participate, but insist that á greater sum is reported in his favor than he…
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