Bank of Chester - Chester, SC

Bank Information

Episode Type: Suspension → Closure
Bank Type: state
Start Date: April 25, 1873
Location: Chester, South Carolina (34.705, -81.214)

Metadata

Model: gpt-5-mini
Short Digest: 9a26e072

Response Measures

None

Description

Article (The Daily Phoenix, 1873-04-27) references a court case naming the 'receivers of the Bank of Chester', indicating the bank had been placed in receivership (i.e., closed) prior to the article date. No run or reopening is described in the provided text.

Events (1)

1. April 25, 1873 Receivership

Newspaper Excerpt: In the cases of Hurvey Terry vs. the Planters' Bank of Fairfield, and J. J. McClure vs. the receivers of the Bank of Chester, it was ordered that these causes be submitted... on or before the 18th June, 1873.
Source: newspapers

Newspaper Articles (1)

1. April 27, 1873 The Daily Phoenix Columbia, SC

Article from The Daily Phoenix, April 27, 1873

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Article Text

UNITED STATES COURT-CHARLESTON, April 25.-James B. Ezell was approved of as assignee of Phineas F. Frazee, bankrupt, and the judgment creditors and the Sheriff were enjoine&from Helling effects of the estate: E. S. Jaffray & Co. withdrew their petition for the involuntary bankruptoy of Stoll, Webb & Co. John E. Rivers was approved of as assignee of Gaillard & Minott, bankrupts. George Leech, indicted for conspiracy, plead gailty. Thomas Alverron, indicted for murder and conspiracy, was ordered to be transferred from Columbia to the jail in this city. In the case of Terry rs Godrey, a bill in equity, it was ordered that the order setting aside the pro confesso decree be set aside, and that the defendant have leave to plead upon the payment of costs. In the case of William F. Colcock, debt on bond, it was ordered that the words, "payable in currency without intereat or costs," be stricken out in each verdiot, and the Clerk of the Court enter a verdiot of $1,227 20 100, in each case for the United States. In the case of Miller vs. Gary, a bill in equity, it was ordered that it be heard on the domurrer and supplemental answer, by printed argument, on or before the 1st of June, before Judge Bond, at Baltimore. In the cases of Hurvey Terry vs. the Planters' Bank of Fairfield, and J. J. McClure vs. the receivers of the Bank of Chester, it was ordered that these causes be submitted, in the printed argument upon the questions of law raised by the pleadings, on or before the 18th June, 1873. The following sentences were imposed: George L. Leech, convicted on conspiracy, six months' imprisonment and a fine of $200; Henry M. Moore, for the same orime, to be imprisoned for two years and pay a fine of $100; Ned Wallaçe, for the same crime, to be imprisomed for eight years in the penitentiary. The prisoners were then removed to the jail to await further disposition. The Registrar was ordered to set off a homestead for the baukrupt, Barksdale Obarles, Greenville, S.C. The same order was made in the case of Rudolph Long, Greenville.