noOD
V. FJRSTNAT. BANK.
Hcly, and in defiance of any right or claim of the plaintiff. There is nothing to show that the transaction was one which would necessarily, itself. The only averment in the bill intended to excusa delay in ,bringing suit by the plaintiff is t4at he "had n() knowladge, or means of knowing, ()f the sale of said bonds to Riggs & Co. until about the m()Dth of April, 1884.» This averment is wholly insufficient to prevent the bar ()f the statute fr()m commencing . to run. The demurrer is sustained. Leave is granted to the plaintiff to move for permission to amend the bill.
HOOD
and others ,
t1. ,
FmSTNAT. '; j
BANK OF TREMONT ·.
and others.J ·
I
(Oircuit OQurt, B,D. Penn8yl'/'Jania., November 18. 1886.) An application for the appointment of a recetver. which has been allowed sleep for six years, will be although some testimony has been taken the. Illean .' ! ,
RECJUVJllR:-Al'POINTMENT-LACHES.
m
In. EquIty. . ." , :G'fJorg(l M. Roads, for complainants. G.' E. Farquhar, for respondents. BUTLglt,:
J. The material alll;lgations oHhe bill are a(follows:
in 1879 the said board of directors directed Wm.A. nuber, president, and Aug. W. Huber, Vice-president, as aforem'entioned,to'act in settling up the business Of the said: ,bank, and' to sell the propertY'. real' and personal. of the said bank, as president and Vice-president, and also as tees of said bank. .' '. . . . "(e) said Wm. A. Huber. president, and Aug, iV.Hriber. vjce-ptesident. as aforesaid, as. trustees for the First National Bank of Tre'mont, sold, on OCtober 13,1880. at public sale, certain interests and titles to 33 tracts or pieeesof land, together WUb' furniture, policies of insurance, and other personal property' belonging to the said bank, without having int\) bonds, or given security of any kiml. fOf the faithful discharge of. their .tf\lstS. and for the protection of the minority stockholders. . "(9)' That at said sale no information was given to irlquiring bidders as to the titles of or incumbrances said properties; one of the said properties (as per No. 15 appended:sale-bill) being adv.el1tised and sold without any description,,-ell:Qepting that said .')roperty was a house and lot. 14x150 ft., on Clay St., Treluont. .;, . ..' . .' "(10). 'fll,at !'fo.· lof said properties was sold!lt sheriff's sale at Potts,ville, Pa., on February 13, 1880, and purchased by" Wm. A. Huber, trustee, for $5,400."" , , .; I,:;,: : "(11) That the said property [No. IJ was sold at the aforementioneQitrt!stees,l sale, held on October 13, 1880, to one Geo. D. Rise. a step-son of the said Wm. A. Huber·.lor $500. 1 Reported
by C. Berkeley Taylor, Esq., ofthe Philadelphia bar.
56
FEDERAL REPORTER,
"(12) That the said Wm. A. Huber, trustee, has admitted that the said lUse purchased said rNo.l] property for the personal uSIll and benefit of said Wm. A. and Aug. W. Huber. "(13) That the said property [purchased, as aforesaid., for $500 by the said Rise, for and to the use of the said Wm. A. and Aug. W. Huber] is the security for $11,000 worth of bonds held by the said bank; said [No.1] property virtually costing the said bank $17,300. "(14) That the said Wm. A. Huberpersonally. and contrary to law, purchased, at the said trustees' sale, a large bank-safe, which formed a part of the assets of the said bank. "(15) That the majority of the sales at said trustees' Sale were mMe to the said Gao, D. Rise, who made said purchases for the said W. A. and Aug. W. Huber, for their own use and benefit. "(16) That because of the meager description of the majority of the properties offered for sale by the said trustees, (as per' amended sale-bill,) purchasers were greatly hindered from bidding; no other information concerning sajd properties being give!! than could be gleaned from bill of sale. "(17) That your orators have good reason to believe that the said bank has been managed in a grossly negligent and fraudulent manner, and the valuable assets of said bank arabeing bought up by said trustees at their own sale, at nominal sums, to the great injury and loss of the creditors and stockholders of thll said bank. Your orators are therefore in need of equitable relief. :. ·".T9 tlie .end, that.· your orators may obtain . equitable relief necessary to then}, and that the said defendants may make auswer to the premises, and make full disclosures pertinent to the plaintiff's case, may it please your honors to grant to your orators the writ of subpoma, to be directed to each of the said defendants. And alsl) (1) to set within-mentioned sale by the said trustees I (2) that a receiver be 'appointed of all the franchises and property, real and personal, .wheresoever situated, belonging to the First National Bank of Tremont. with power to sue for and collect all sums and claims due to the said the ;First National Bank of Tremont, and to liquidate all claims and debts against the said bank."
were for the appointment of receivers. for an order forbidding the trustees parting with the property, and for other relief. Subsequently the property. involved was sold by agreement of the parties, and this branch .of the case has been disposed of. Nothing material remains but the application for receivers, based upon the allegation of mismanagement of the affairs .of the bank. This application has been allowed to sleep for more than six years. Considerable testimony has been taken, but this should not have required more than a few months. Passing by the question whether the charge o,f mismanagement is sufficiently specific, we think the delay in pressing the motion for receivers should, of itself, require a denial of the application. Furthermore,' an examination of the testimony taken 'has failed to satisfy us that the motion should be granted, had this delay not occurred. The mismanagement, charged in general terms is not made out with the cle'amess necessary to justify interference. The application for receivers is therefore denied.
EWELL
v. CHICAGO
& N. W. RY. CQ.
57
EWELL, Adm'x, v. CHICAGO & N. W. Ry. CO. lOircuit Court, 8. 1.
n. [()'11Ja, W; D.
September Term, 1886.)
Section 2527 of the Iowa Code, giving a right of action for a wrongful injury causing death, and declaring that "such action shall be deemed a continuing one, and to have accrued to such representative or successor at the same time as it did to the deceased if he had survived, .. gives one and not two rights of action,-one to the deceased and the other to his estate,-but one which accrues at the same time as it would have accrued had deceased survived. 2. SAME-ExCEPTIONS-COMMENCEMENT OF ACTION.-CODE IOWA, § 2532. Under section 2532 of the Iowa Code, providing that "placing the notice in the hands of the sheriff for service * * * shall, so far as the statute ('f limitations is concerned, be aeemed the commencement of the action, .. the delivery of the notice to the sheriff, and not the filing of the petition, is the commencement of the action.
STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS-NEGLiGENCE-ACTION FOR DAMAGES FOR CAUSING DEATB.-CODE IOWA, § 2527.
At Law. Action for damages for negligently causing the death Qfplaintiff's intestate. Demurrer to answer. Mr. Warren and Jacob Sims, for plaintiff. John N. Baldwin and N.M. Hubbard. for defendant. BHrnAs, J. In this action, plaintiff, as the administratrix of the estate of Charles A. Ewell, seeks to recover damages against the defendant company on the ground that Ewell's death was caused by. the negligence of the company. From the record it appears that Ewell was injured on' the fifteenth day of August, 1883, by a train on defendant's road at Missouri Valley, Iowa; that he lived from one to three hours after receiving the injuries resulting in his death; that plaintiff was appointed administratrix of his estate in the spring of 1885; that the petition in this cause was filed in the district court of Harrison county, Iowa, on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1885; that· no original notice was issued or served in the case; and that the defendant company entered its appearance in the action on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1885, at which time the company filed an answer, and also a petition for the removal of the cause to this court. The demurrer presents the question of the statute of limitations, and in its determination it is necessary to ascertain when the action was commenced, and when the cause of action accrued. Section 2599 of the Code enacts that actions in a court of . record shall be commenced by serving the defendant with a notice signed by the plaintiff or his attorney. Section 2532 provides that the placing the notice in the hands of the sheriff for immediate service or actual service upon defendant, by some third person, shall, so far as the statute of limitations is concerned, be deemed to be the commencement of the action. InOollins v. Bane, 34 Iowa, 385, it appeared that the petition was filed January 28,1870, but the notice was not delivered to the sheriff
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