Butler v. McKey

STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the district court, granting a motion to quash service of summons on defendant, appellee herein, and vacating the default judgment entered against her, which order was made after the expiration of the period set aside for questioning a judgment directly.

Plaintiffs filed a creditors’ bill in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California on November 19, 1936. The suit was based upon the statutory stockholders’ liability of defendants as shareholders of the Woodlawn Trust and- Savings Bank, an Illinois…