Davis Trust Co. v. Hardee

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, filed their bill of complaint in the lower court March 6, 1935, alleging that they were owners of a large number of shares of the capital stock of the Federal-American National Bank & Trust Company, a banking association formerly doing business in the District of Columbia, and that the Comptroller of the Currency, who had taken charge of the bank, had made a 100 per cent, assessment against the stockholders. The bill sought to restrain temporarily the enforcement of the assessment and alleged :

1. That on March 14, 1933, the defendant…