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1 In the Supreme Court in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In Equity. Between Joshua Spering, assignee of the National Safety Insurance and Trust Company, Plaintiff,  and Frank A. Drexel, Anthony J. Drexel, and Joseph W. Drexel 1868

handle is hein.trials/adjz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IN THE SUPRENE COURT
In and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
IN EQUITY.
Between JOSHUA SPERING, assignee of)
the National Safety Insurance and
Trust Company, plaintiff,
and
FRANK A. DREXEL, ANTHONY J.
DREXEL, and JOSEPH W. DREXEL,
who have survived FRANCIS M. |
DREXEL, deceased, late trading as
DREXEL & CO., and STEPHEN COUL-
TER, defendant8.               9
Your orator complains and says as follows, viz.,
1st. He is assignee of the National Safety Insurance and
Trust Company, a corporation incorporated by an Act of April
17th, 1841, and the supplements thereto. Said Company,
whose business had been for many years prior to the 18th day
of April, 1861, that of a Savings Fund, inviting and obtaining
deposits from all classes, and which had been long prior to that
date utterly insolvent, on that day made an assignment for the
benefit of its creditors to Henry L. Benner, its President, the
defendant, Stephen Coulter, and one John Derbyshire. The
said John Derbyshire declined to act, the said Benner and
Coulter were dismissed by the Court of Common Pleas, and
your orator was appointed by said Court in their stead, gave
bond in due form, and entered upon the duties of said trust.
2d. In making inquiries in reference to the assets of said
Company, in the course of his administration of the assigned

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