Maverick National Bank

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The Maverick National Bank was a bank in East Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1854 [1] and failed on October 31, 1891. [2] [3] The bank had extended large loans to its president, Asa P. Potter, who used the funds for speculative investments. [4] [5]

Much litigation followed the bank's failure, including Beal v. National Exchange Bank of Dallas and City of Summerville v. Beal. Potter was indicted for violations of banking law. [6]

Nehemiah Gibson was a president and later a director of the bank. [1] [7]

In 1897, the remainder of the bank's assets, which included many worthless stocks and bonds of already defunct companies, were sold at auction by the Boston-based banking firm R.L. Day & Co., resulting in $429 of proceeds. [8]

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References

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  2. "BEAL v. NATIONAL EXCH. BANK OF DALLAS" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-13. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
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  6. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=155&invol=438 155 US 438 (1894)
  7. A History of East Boston Archived 2009-09-22 at the Wayback Machine , 1858
  8. "MAVERICK BANK ASSETS SOLD.; Securities Aggregating $1,095,890 Auctioned in Boston Fetch $429". The New York Times. 30 December 1897.