Stringfellow v. Patterson

Appellee, Patterson, in his rep-i-esentative capacity as commissioner of insurance and banking for the state of Texas, brought this action to recover from appellant the sum of $7,000, claimed as the amount for which she was liable under the Texas banking laws, as a stockholder in the First State Bank of Amarillo, which has become insolvent. It is alleged that the bank became insolvent about the 4th day of April, 1914, and that the then commissioner of insurance and banking of the state of Texas, on the 7th day of April, A. D. 1914, had assessed the stockholders of said insolvent bank under…