Woodworth v. Bowles

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, C. J. :

This was a proceeding in equity be gun by Thomas Bowles in behalf of himself and others as creditors of an insolvent banking institution, against R. J. Woodworth and others as stockholders in the bank, to compel the payment by them of the amounts due on their statutory liability as stockholders, and for a distribution of such amounts among the several creditors of the bank, and to restrain certain of its creditors from the prosecution of actions begun by them against the stockholders to enforce for themselves and in their several…