Irwin v. Adams

opinion of the court by

coke, c. j.

Plaintiff-appellee, N. W. Irwin, receiver of the Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank of Chicago, instituted in the circuit court of the first judicial circuit of the Territory of Hawaii an action at law against Edward C. Adams, defendant-appellant, to recover the sum of $15,000 claimed to be due by virtue of an assessment duly levied on the capital stock of the bank owed by appellant. Appellee alleged the insolvency of the bank, the appointment of himself as receiver thereof by the controller of the currency, the levy of the assessments upon the stockholders by…