Miller v. Lane
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. George H. Hutton, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtMelvin, J.
Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment in favor of defendant, Ezra F. Lane, who was sued upon an alleged stockholder’s liability arising from his ownership of certain stock of a bank formerly doing business in the state of Colorado. The bank of which Lane was a stockholder had been found to be insolvent in 1899 and its property had passed into the hands of an assignee, who settled certain preferred claims and paid the depositors a percentage of the amounts due them. By an action commenced June 9, 1905, certain creditors of the bank proceeded in a court of competent jurisdiction in the state of…
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