Davis v. First Baptist Society
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action at law by the plaintiff as receiver of a national bank against the defendants as a stockholder, to recover the amount of an assessment for the debts of the bank; brought to the United States District Court of the district of Connecticut, and heard before Shipman, Jat the November term, 1877. The case is fully stated in-the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, J.
This is an action at law brought by the receiver of the Ocean National Bank of the city of New York, to recover from the defendants an assessment upon their stock in said bank.
The parties agreed by stipulation in writing, waiving a jury, that the case should be tried by the court.
All the allegations of fact which are contained in the plaintiff’s declaration were admitted by the defendants to be true and are found to be true. The certificate of stock which was delivered to, and was accepted and is now held by the defendants, is in the name of the First Baptist Church and Society of Essex,…
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