Abbott v. Tacoma Bank of Commerce
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE WASHINGTON. Motion to dismiss or affirm. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
The plaintiff in error, Abbott, -brought this action in the Superior Court of the State of Washington to recover damages sustained by the plaintiff on account of an alleged libel published against him by the National Bank of Commerce of Tacoma, Washington, and the other individual defendants named.
It appears that in 1895 the defendant bank at the instance of the other defendants as its directors and attorneys instituted a suit in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Washington against three of its former directors to recover certain alleged losses on account of loans made by…
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