Wickens v. Valley State Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hopkins, J.:

We have here three actions consolidated, all for the purpose of holding the Valley State Bank responsible as participant in breaches of trust by its cashier?. C. B. Lambe. They involve separate stages of a series of transactions between Lambe and James Wickens, now deceased. The first case was brought by .the grandsons of Wickens to recover $17,934, alleged to have beeii dissipated through Lambe’s wrongful acts; the second, by the Union National Bank, the successor in trust, to recover the amount óf a trust fund established by the deceased…