Drake v. McKinney

LINDLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff, as receiver of the First National Bank of Monticello, Ill., has brought this suit in equity seeking to establish a lien upon the estate of Alice Stevenson, deceased, out of which it may have satisfied, by a proper decree and proceeding thereunder, an assessment upon shares of stock in the bank owned by Alice Stevenson in her lifetime. The stockholder died intestate July-26, 1929.

The bill alleges that the estate has not been finally closed and that Alice Stevenson died seized of certain real estate in fee simple. Some of her heirs have died since her death,…