King v. Armstrong

This is an action brought by plaintiff as receiver of an insolvent national bank in the state of Kansas to recover from defendant, as a stockholder of said bank, the amount of an assessment levied upon certain stock of which he was the alleged owner. After the bank had gone into voluntary liquidation a proceeding was instituted by one of its creditors in the United States circuit court for the district wherein the bank was located, in which proceeding plaintiff was appointed receiver of the bank. Thereafter, on February 12, 1900, the court, by an order made in said proceeding, levied an…