National Bank v. Earle

Citations

• 196 Pa. 217
• 46 A. 268
• 1900 Pa. LEXIS 506

Syllabus

<p>Equity — Insolvency—Plan to secure creditors — Corporations—Fraud.</p> <p>A bill in equity to secure the dismissal of the managers of a plan to pay the unsecured creditors of an insolvent, will be dismissed where there is no proof of the fraud or bad faith averred in the bill, and it is shown that under the plan the managers alone were to declare when it should be operative, and that they did not declare it operative because the assent of certain creditors and of the stockholders of certain corporations, absolutely ■necessary to the plan could not be obtained.</p> <p>Attorney at law — Attorney and client — Professional commtmication— Bill of discovery.</p> <p>An attorney at law cannot by a bill of discovery be compelled to disclose advice given to his client.</p>