Van Dyke v. Green Ridge Bank

WATSON, District Judge.

This is a suit to recover an assessment levied against the Defendant as a shareholder of the Peckville National Bank, which was found to be insolvent, and is now before the Court on Plaintiff’s motion for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense.

Defendant, in its affidavit of defense, does not deny that it has been the owner and holder of 40 shares of the capital stock of the Peckville National Bank from August 16, 1932 (two years before the assessment was made) to the present time. It does deny, however, that it is the real, beneficial owner of said…