Witters v. Sowles

This bill is brought to charge the assets of the estate of Hiram Bellows, in the hands of the defendant Sowles, as executor, and of the other defendants, as devisees and legatees, with an assessment on 430 aliares of the capital stock of the First National Bank of St. Albans, of the par value of §100 each, made by tlie comptroller of the currency equal to that amount. At the time of the organization of the bank, in 1804, the testator took 450 of its 1,000 shares, and they were placed to bis name on the books of the bank. In 1865 he refused to pay bis taxes, and the collector advertised and…