Shuey v. Holmes

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gordon, C. J.

This case was tried in the lower court upon an agreed statement of facts. From a judgment in defendant’s favor the plaintiff has appealed. The suit is upon the statutory liability of respondent Alice L. Holmes as a stockholder in a hanking corporation. From the agreed statement, it appears that the Seattle Savings Bank was incorporated on June 13, 1891; that on January 12, 1897, in a suit then pending wherein it was defendant and one J. W. Hughes was plaintiff, it was adjudged insolvent and the appellant was duly appointed its receiver. On…