Chapman v. Harris

The appellant, J. L. Chapman, in his capacity as state banking commissioner, instituted this suit against ap-pellee Merton L. Harris, to recover the sum of $2,000, the amount of a 100 per cent, assessment upon 20 shares of the capital stock of the First State Bank of De Leon, which bank had become insolvent and had been taken over by the banking commissioner for the purpose of winding up its affairs. Appellee, in addition to a general demurrer and general .denial, specially pleaded that, if he was a stockholder (a fact which he denied), he was fraudulently induced to become such by…