Page v. Jones

WALTER H. SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit by Irving Page, receiver of the Eirst National Bank of Lawton, Okl., appointed by the Comptroller of the Currency on November 18, 1922, to collect an assessment and requisition of $1,000 made by the Comptroller of the Currency on January 27,1923, on the defendant, M. E. Jones, the holder of 10 shares of the stock of that bank, of the par value of $100 each, to enforce his double liability to the creditors of that bank under section 5151, Revised Statutes, as amended (section 9689, U. S. Compiled Statutes).

The defendant pleaded two defenses:…