Whitman v. Citizens' Bank of Reading
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The Oitizens’ Bank of Reading, a Pennsylvania corporation, Kate A. Norton, a citizen of Kansas, and John Watts, as receiver of the American National Bank of Arkansas City, a national banking .corporation established in the state of Kansas, each brought an action at law in the circuit court for the Southern district of New York against George L. Whitman, a citizen of the state of New…
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. In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The Oitizens’ Bank of Reading, a Pennsylvania corporation, Kate A. Norton, a citizen of Kansas, and John Watts, as receiver of the American National Bank of Arkansas City, a national banking .corporation established in the state of Kansas, each brought an action at law in the circuit court for the Southern district of New York against George L. Whitman, a citizen of the state of New York, resident in the city of New York, and stockholder in the Arkansas City Investment Company, an insolvent Kansas…
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, Circuit Judge
The Citizens’ Bank of Reading Case.
A judgment in favor of the plaintiff for $4,997.50 upon suit brought on December 14, 1894, in the proper state court in Kansas, was recovered against the corporation • on April 16, 1895. Execution was issued thereon on April 30, 1895, and was returned unsatisfied. The complaint also set forth the notes upon which the judgment was rendered. No defense arising upon a statute of limitations was pleaded. Retzer v. Wood, 109 U. S. 185, 3 Sup. Ct. 164, 27 L. Ed. 900. The answer denied the allegations in regard to the judgment, but made no averment of defects…
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