Wright v. Keene

This action was brought by the plaintiff as receiver of the First National Bank of Townsend to recover from the defendant, alleged to be a shareholder, an amount due upon an assessment made on the shareholders of the bank by the comptroller of the currency. The court rendered judgment for plaintiff and defendant appealed.

It appears that in 1912 H. L. Keene was the owner of ten shares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of Townsend, referred to hereafter as the bank. Mr. Keene, during that year, wrote upon the back of the certificate which evidenced his ownership of the shares an…