Kimen v. Atlas Exchange Nat. Bank of Chicago

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Appellant seeks to reverse a decree of the District Court entered in an equity proceeding whereby his claim for damages was denied. The original proceeding in the trial court was a bill brought by a creditor of the Atlas Exchange National Bank of Chicago, then in liquidation, against it and its stockholders, in the nature of a creditors’ bill. Various judgments had been procured against the bank. Executions had been returned, “no property found”; thereupon the equity suit to establish liability of the stockholders for the unpaid judgments was instituted.

Appellant had…