Dodson v. Wightman

The defendant C. E. Wightman, for a number of years, had conducted a bank, known as the Bank of Tribune, which was owned entirely by him. Being insolvent, he appeared before the Bank Commissioner at To.peka on September 23, 1896, and stated that he had come for the purpose of surrendering to the Commissioner the possession of the Bank, and that he desired that the Commissioner should go immediately to Tribune and take actual and personal possession of the Bank and all of its assets. Wight-man then gave to the Commissioner a statement of the financial condition of the Bank, showing its…