Williamson v. American Bank
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District ■of South Carolina, at Greenville. On December 11, 1897, pursuant to resolutions and orders of its stockholders, the National Bank of Asheville, a body corporate, organized and ■established under and by virtue of the statutes of the United States known as the “National Banking Act,” by and through its proper officers, executed to W. B. Williamson a general deed of assignment assigning, transferring, and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District ■of South Carolina, at Greenville. On December 11, 1897, pursuant to resolutions and orders of its stockholders, the National Bank of Asheville, a body corporate, organized and ■established under and by virtue of the statutes of the United States known as the “National Banking Act,” by and through its proper officers, executed to W. B. Williamson a general deed of assignment assigning, transferring, and conveying to the said W. B. Williamson all its property, estate, notes, accounts, claims, evidences of debt, and all demands…
1Opinion of the CourtKeller, District Judge
The demurrers from the decree sustaining which the plaintiffs appealed were interposed upon the following grounds: That the circuit court of the district in which the bank was located or established alone had jurisdiction of a bill by a creditor of a national bank in voluntary liquidation to- ascertain and enforce the statutory liability of the shareholders of such bank to the creditors thereof; that in such a suit the other shareholders of the bank are necessary parties, and were not made such; and that there was a misjoinder of parties plaintiff, as there was no interest in common between…
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