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# SUPREME COURT OPINION. Affirms Judgment in Case Against Citizens' Bank of Ogden. In the cas of Eliza Warren et al, appellants, vs Theodore Robison et al, directors, and the receiver of the defunct Citizens' Bank of Ogden, the supreme court handed down an opinion late Saturday afternoon affirming the judgment of the lower court except as to one of the directors, Charles M. Brough, and as against him the case was reversed and remanded to the lower court with instructions to enter judgment in his favor. The opinion was written by Judge Stewart, of the Third district court, and concurred in by Justices Baskin and Bartch. The suit was brought by plaintiffs, as stockholders of the bank, against the receiver and directors of the institution for an accounting and to recover damages for the alleged negligence in the management of the bank. On April 26, 1899, Judge McCarty, who tried the case, rendered a judgment of nonsuit against defendants. The case was appealed to the supreme court and the nonsult affirmed as against Directors Theodore Robison, John Maguire, Newell Beeman and George W. Perkins. and Receiver J. C. Armstrong. The judgment was set aside as against Charles M. Brough. H. H. Spencer, George Murphy, Adam Kuhn, R. A. Wells, S. S. Schramm and W. W. Corey. The case was again tried and, on May 27, 1901, Judge McCarty rendered a decision in favor of plaintiffs and fixed the amount for which each defendant was liable. From this judgment an appeal was taken by both the plaintiffs and defendants, but the supreme court affirmed the judgment except as against defendant Brough, as stated above.