SALEM TRUST CO. v. FEDERAL NAT. BANK

No. 3001.

78 F.2d 407 (1935)

SALEM TRUST CO. v. FEDERAL NAT. BANK et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

May 25, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred P. Lowell, of Boston, Mass. (Burnham, Bingham, Pillsbury, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.

John C. Coughlin and John VdeP. Phelan, both of Boston, Mass. (Parkman, Robbins, Coughlin & Hannan, of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellees.

Before BINGHAM, WILSON, and MORTON, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

The evidence rejected by Judge Lowell but considered by Judge Brewster in reaching some of the conclusions in the fifth paragraph of his findings of fact was competent and properly considered. He was at liberty to disregard the ruling of Judge Lowell and consider the evidence, and, this being a suit in equity, we should have done so had he done otherwise.

Whether the officers of the national bank knew or did not know the trust company was insolvent...

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