Williamson v. American Bank

BRAWLEY, District Judge.

The demurrer rests upon several grounds which seem meritorious, but, that which raises the question of jurisdiction being held to be decisive, it alone need be considered. *37The hill, filed by Williamson, trustee of the National Bank of Ashe-ville, N. 0., and the Battery Bark Bank, against the American Bank and W. L. Gassaway, as cashier, alleges, inter alia, that the National Bank of Asheville was a body corporate under what is known as the “National Banking Act,” and, it having become financially embarrassed and desiring to discontinue business, its stockholders, at…