Mechanics' Savings Bank v. Harding

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Greene, J. :

The defendant in. error recovered judgment against the Bank of Le Roy, Kansas. Durr ing the life of the judgment, but more than ten years after the cause of action accrued against the stockholders of the bank, the defendant in error commenced the present action, seeking to hold the plaintiff in error, a banking corporation of Rhode Island, as a stockholder in the Bank of Le Roy. To avoid the statute of limitations, the petition contained the following allegations :

“That it, the said Mechanics’ Savings Bank, of Westerly, Rhode Island, is a…