Austin v. Avant

This is a suit instituted by Mrs. Lela Avant, a feme sole, plaintiff, against the Pecos Valley State Bank, J. L. Chapman, as banking commissioner, and J. L. Chapman, W. A. Keeling, and C. B. Terrell, composing the state banking board, defendants, for the sum of $2,000, and asking that her claim therefor be established as payable out of the state guaranty fund.

The defendants J. L. Chapman, banking commissioner, the Pecos Valley State Bank, and the banking board answered by general demurrer and general denial, and. further alleged that the certificate of deposit upon which plaintiff based her…