Ferry v. Ramsey

delivered - the opinion of the Coúrt.

These writs of error are brought by Ferry, formerly a director of the Butler County State Bank, of Kansas,, and by the execiitor of a deceased director/ to set aside judgments against them in suits by depositors im the bank, on the ground that the statutes of: Kansas purporting to establish the directors’ liability were contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. The statutes were upheld by the State Court. 122 Kans. 675. Ibid. 691.

The plaintiffs, (the defendants in error,) made deposits in the. bank at a time when it was…