The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-10-11

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To recapi,ulate: All the proceedings 10 Tue
cases of The Valley Bank and the FARMERS
Rank, collecting assets and distributing nearly
the whole Of the proceeds among creui'ols;
took Mace between November, 1916 aGu
Nav. 1870. All the nan transactions took
nl,ce between those dates. In theE were
emnloyed. at various times and Tor various
PARTIES, certainly one hundred of the leau,ns
members of the bar of this State-oid, expo
rieuced, and able lawyers. They were col.
lcclipg claims against the banks or oetenu,ps
their clients ogair st the claims OF the oanks.
During that whole period the Chlef jus
fice was here at every term save one, ana no
one ever applied TO him to correct any OF Tue
Il ,urant enormities which are now falsey III
,inuated to have been perpetraten.
have taken the fscts rs to the valey bsnH
case from the recerd-book in the CLERK onlce'
The "a pers in that cause haze been taken out
md therefore cannot be accurate as 10 mat
tiers contained solely 10 them.
| THE FARMERS BANK CASE.
! Noyn.to tho narticular Institutions as to
the record in the Farmers Bink case was
counsel for the receiver in this ana Tue or
leg Bank only for certain purposes-!ue 1..
lection of such debts as were committed to
me, Other counsel were employed by them
for other work. here and elsewhere. Eacb
creditor had his own counsel, and orders
we're continually passed on the application
Of such LAWYERS without my knowledge, ana
which in no wise concerned me. therefore
could not prcte-d to know the scope or the
details of such extended transactions oy SO
many gentlemen Of the bar. am RESPONSE
BILE for nv own &C 5, and for no one else.
AS to the clerks negligence in keeping his
records. nolbirg but the most puerlle mailce
could suggest any lawyers responsibility Tor
it. .u
First. The insinuation is that the bill, de.
fence, and decree are missing. The Gill ana
decree were printed. Copies were furnished
without cost TO any counsel that wanted
them. ard have no doubt can now be found
in mlov law-offi .es. 1t is not surprising that
thez should be lost, however, for person
who would attack The character OF man
from a record by his own statement incom-
ole,e would be quite capable of losing a
part OF it.
| Falsehood 2. That the fund was distri-
buted without sufficient notice to creditors
The deed of trust required six months no
tice to creditors. The trustees, Robinson
and Goddin, had given twelve mouths mo-
tice 10 ne Rspaper published in every town
where The Farmers Bunk had branches. BY
the courts order of May 9th the receiver was
directed TO give three mouths notice IN the
I same papers, and by another order, of June
14tb. the master was directed to give one
months notice. The creditors, therefore,
hal notice published all over The State from
January, 1867, to September, 1S68,-nine-
teen months in all. Now, the Code Of Vir-
ginia only requires one months notice to be
given by publication in one newspaper. The
court here gave four months notice,-four
times that required by the State law-and
the whole notice was nineteen times as long
as the Stale law required, and three times as
long as that called tor by the deed of trust.
Falsehood No. 8. The fund was distrib-
uted among ten creditors, my clients, from
whom I received pay, thus acting in collu'
sion with them to the detrlment OF other
creditors
Isaacs, TAYLOR & Williams have already de.
nouuced this as to them'elveS. l denouoce
it likewise as to the rest. sutton d co.
were my regular clients in all their business,
and paid me a commission on money collect.
ed for them, but not one snrle one OF any OF
the other ten parties named had any such re.
!ation to me in this ct>e as client, aor did
ever get copper from them or any one else
for col ectipg this money except Sutton
Co.
So far from the fund being divided among
y ,r.nu JiriI n,nn
all who had filed their claims and proved
them during the preceding nineteen months.
Their claims were generally taken by brokers
for collection, and Isaacs, Taylor & Williams,
Sutton 81 Co., Maury L Co., and FInt, repre-
sented numerous creditors who had sent
their claims to them for collection. If that
fund was distributed irregularly or impro-
perly then Chief.Justice Cease was here just
two months after it was paid over. All these
parties were then rich and lived in Rich
moud, and the court could easily have or
dered them to pay the money back into
court. But no one complained, for no one
was injured.
Fslsehood No. 4. The paper alleged to
sho. fees charged to me at ST 900 is not
du,onq the papers. Whether the compiler
has made the whole story up, or only taken
the PAPER after he made the extract, because
it contains full explanations Of itself. [ do
not know or care, nor can | now take time
to examine my books aud ascertain the
aggregate amount Of my fees in the Farmers
Bank case.
got, by allowance Of the Chief Justice,
$40 for each petition filed and five per cent.
commission for collections, which divided
among the local attorneys who conducted
the business for me, such as f. l.. Smith.
ESD, of Alexandra; Hunton Il Foster, OF
Leeshurg; Colonel +. W. NJ. Holiday and
Judge Joseph H. Sherard, Of Winchester,
allowing fees for suits brought at $4,000, and
one bait commission, 50 800 making SILL
500 IN all Tor three years incessant labor |
am quite diSsati.tied at the smalaess Of the
compensation.
Falsehood No. 5. That no such man ever
existed as Willism B,yne, and that he Eever
colec ed his debt. reply that Bayue was
native OF Virginia, rich grocery and
commissiou.merchant of Btltmore. who, as
the bill and his oah shows, held $4,000 OF
the notes of the Farmers Bank. He &C elected
bis dividend on bis notes through some OF
the parties above named, or sold them.
Fal,ehood No. 6. That September 81,
| 1860, had an order passed authorizing the
receiver to take bank bills in payment Of
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