Barber v. Bryan

This is a controversy over unpaid assessments aggregating $7,215.06, which the department of trade and commerce levied at different times in favor of the bank guaranty and final settlement funds against the Bank of Florence while it was conducting a commercial banking business at Omaha under a charter from the state.

When insolvent May 9, 1930, the bank was closed by the department of trade and commerce after the assessments were levied, but it was never in charge of a receiver for purposes of liquidation. By virtue of a contract between creditors and reorganizers for the reopening of the bank…