Dempster v. Ashton

This was, as evidenced by plaintiff’s amended petition, a. proceeding in equity against seventy-eight persons named therein, alleged to be stockholders in the Dunbar Grain Company, a bankrupt corporation, commenced by E. J. Dempster, receiver (E. H. Luikart substituted receiver) of the Dunbar State Bank to recover for the bank and the other creditors of the grain company similarly situated the liability imposed by section 24-213, Comp. St. 1929, for that company’s failure to give notices annually of the amount of its existing debts.

The original petition filed November 1, 1930, set forth the…