Brooks v. Austin

This is a suit filed June 1, 1916, by'John S. Patterson, then commissioner of insurance and banking of the state of Texas, and who was the successor in office of H. W. Collier, against J. P. Sadler, Jr., R. E. Brooks, and J. M. Powers, to enforce the payment of an assessment of $14,-000, being the par value of 140 shares of the stock of the Pirst State Bank of Amarillo, Tex., originally issued to said Sadler, and within 12 months next before the suspension of payments by said bank transferred by him to said Powers, who, it was alleged, acquired and held same as the agent of said Brooks. It…