Kansas State Bank v. Laughlin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This controversy involves the effect of a constitutional amendment relating to the individual liability of stockholders upon a statute fixing the liability of stockholders in banking corporations, which was in force when the amendment was adopted.

*521The appeal, which was taken from a judgment holding that the amendment operated as a repeal of the statute, has had unusual attention. On the first hearing, the court, one justice not sitting, was equally divided on the question. A reargument of the case was therefore directed, and that hearing…