Dean v. Shingle

The plaintiffs, as trustees of the United States Aircraft Corporation, a bankrupt, brought this action to recover the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, alleged to have been “wholly lost” to the corporation through misappropriation of corporate funds by the defendant Mulford, a director, and the president and general manager of the corporation j the defendant Shingle having also been a director of the corporation at the time of the alleged misappropriation. The defendant Shingle alone appeared in the action, and demanded that the cause be tried by a jury. When the evidence was all in,…