Fuller v. Ledden

This was an action of debt, brought by Mary Ledden, in the Superior Court of Cook county, against Oliver F. Fuller, to recover the amount of certain moneys deposited in the Bank of Chicago, a corporation organized under a special charter of the State of Illinois, in which Fuller was a stockholder at the time the money was deposited.

The action was brought to enforce the individual liability of Fuller as a stockholder under the third section of the charter of the bank, which provided that “ each stockholder shall be liable to double the amount of stock held or owned by him, and for three months…