Weisner v. Engstrom

Mr. Presiding Justice Jones

delivered the opinion of the court.

Edward Weisner, a creditor of the Montana State Bank of Fallon, Montana, brought an action of debt against Ebenezer W. Engstrom to recover $500, on account of an assessment against Engstrom as a stockholder of said bank.

The declaration charges that the bank had failed; that Engstrom was a stockholder in it, and owned five shares of the par value of $100 each; that the district court of the sixteenth judicial district of the State of Montana had determined that an assessment of $100 per share should be levied against all…