Foster v. Chase
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont
This was a suit in equity by Edwin L. Foster against Henry Chase and others to recover an assessment upon the stock of a national bank.
1Opinion of the Court
WHEEDER, District Judge.
The defendant bought stock in the names of his minor children in the First National Bank of Silver City, N. M., of which the plaintiff is receiver, and this suit is brought for an assessment upon it made by the comptroller of the currency. The plaintiff claims that the defendant made himself liable for the assessment because of the incapacity of Ms children to take the stock and make themselves liable for it. He insists that they only are the shareholders, and liable, if any one is. Assent is necessary to becoming a shareholder, subject to this liability, in a national…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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3Cited by14 opinions
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- Rutledge v. StackleySupreme Court of South Carolina · 1931
- Foster v. WilsonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Vermont · 1896
- McDowell v. RamboCourt of Appeals of Tennessee · 1937
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