Chapman v. Cochran

This suit was originally brought by Jeff Cochran, as plaintiff below, against J. L. Chapman, banking commissioner of the state of Texas, and the Shepherd State Bank and San Jacinto county, by petition filed in the district court of San Jacin-to county, Texas, on December 5,1923. Cochran claimed to be the owner of a deposit in the Shepherd State Bank in the sum of $16,000, which he alleged was a noninterest-bearing and unsecured deposit on the 19th day of August, 1921, the date said bank ceased to do business and was closed by the banking commissioner, and sought to have said deposit classed…