Brown v. Ellis

WHEELER, District Judge.

The plaintiff is receiver of the Sioux City National Bank of Sioux City, Iowa; the defendant is executrix of the will of a shareholder therein; and this suit is brought to reach the assets of the estate in satisfaction of an assessment by the comptroller of the currency upon the shares of the estate amounting to §1,800. The case was before this court in Brown v. Ellis, 86 Fed. 857, upon a question of reaching the assets of the estate. It has now been heard upon a motion to dismiss for want of the jurisdictional amount of §2,000, exclusive of interest and costs, in…