Duke v. Olson

This is a suit brought to enforce double liability of a stockholder of a bank, tried by the court, in which judgment was against the defendant for $1,244.16, from which he appeals.

Plaintiff Duke is supervisor of banking of the State of Washington, and Farnsworth, the other plaintiff, is director of taxation and examination of Washington. The two are the successors in office of the bank commissioner of the State of Washington. They will hereinafter be called the bank commissioner. Defendant is a resident of Illinois and a stockholder of the Scandinavian-American Bank of Tacoma, Washington,…