Smathers v. Bank.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by George H. Smathers and others against the Western Carolina Bank and others, heard by Judge B. F. Long, at March Term, 1904, of the Superior Court of Buncombe County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiffs, the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCoNNor, J.
This action, in tbe nature of a bill in equity, was brought by George TI. Smathers, Receiver of tbe Western Carolina Bank, in which a number of creditors in behalf of themselves and all other creditors of said bank joined, against the bank and certain stockholders thereof for the purpose of enforcing the statutory liability imposed upon the stockholders for the indebtednes of the bank by chapter 298, Public Laws 1897. The complaint sets forth the incorporation and organization of the bank, the names and number of shares held by each stockholder and date of becoming such stockholder, and the…
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