Murtey v. Allen
Supreme Court of Vermont
Debt. Heard on demurrer to tbe declaration, at the September term, 1898, Rutland county, Thompson, J., presiding. Demurrer sustained. The plaintiff excepted.
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Debt. Heard on demurrer to tbe declaration, at the September term, 1898, Rutland county, Thompson, J., presiding. Demurrer sustained. The plaintiff excepted. The declaration alleged the organization, existence and operation of the Commercial Bank of Weeping Water, in Nebraska; defendant’s ownership of stock therein; the existence of the constitutional provision quoted in the opinion of the court as of the time when the defendant became a stockholder and ever since; the existence of a law of Nebraska that a court might order the receiver of a banking corporation, who had filed a certain…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The plaintiff, as receiver of the Commercial Bank of Weeping Water, in the state of Nebraska, under an appointment by the district court within and for the county of Cass, in the state of Nebraska, in a proceeding in which the state of Nebraska is complainant and the said bank is defendant, has brought his action of debt against the defendant, a resident of this State, and an alleged stockholder in said bank, to enforce an alleged liability existing against him by force of § 7, of Art. 11, of the constitution of the state of Nebraska, which reads: “Every stockholder in a banking corporation…
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