Webb v. Hansard

The superintendent of banks, through the assistant superintendent, issued an execution against Mrs. Joel Webb to enforce her liability as stockholder of Farmers & Merchants Bank, of Cumming, Georgia, which was in process of liquidation under the banking act. This execution was, under order of the court, transferred to J. L. Hansard, who caused the execution to be levied upon property of the deceased stockholder in the hands of her executor, she having died in the meantime. To this levy the executor filed an affidavit raising, among others, the question of whether the assessment against the…