Hillmer v. Chicago Bank of Commerce

This is a direct appeal from an order of the superior court of Cook county entered in a consolidated suit prosecuted for the purpose of enforcing the constitutional liability of the stockholders of the Chicago Bank of Commerce. Appellee filed a motion to dismiss the appeal which was taken with the case and since it presents a jurisdictional question it will be given first consideration.

Appellant claims that part of section 11 of the Banking act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 16½, par. 11,) which provides : “Said receiver shall have authority upon the order of the court appointing him to employ…