Benjamin State Bank v. Reed

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

On March 27, 1936, Mrs. Mattie Reed, a feme sole, filed this suit against the Benjamin State Bank. By her first amended original petition, filed May 8, 1936, Z. Gos-sett, Banking Commissioner of Texas, was made a party defendant along with the original defendant, the reason therefor appearing from the allegation that “on or about the - day of April 1936, the said defendant The Benjamin State Bank closed its doors and said defendant bank and all of its assets and claimed assets were taken over * * by Z. Gossett, Commissioner of Banking”, etc.

The first part of plaintiff’s…