Bundy v. Cocke

Citations

• 128 U.S. 185
• 9 S. Ct. 242
• 32 L. Ed. 396
• 1888 U.S. LEXIS 2209

Syllabus

<p>A bill in equity, filed in Kentucky, by the receiver of a national bank located in Arkansas, against a married woman and her husband, alleged to be citizens of Kentucky, to enforce against the separate property of the wife the collection of an assessment by the comptroller of the currency of 50 per cent of the par value of the stock, as an individual liability of the shareholders, averred that when the bank suspended, the wife was the owner of 100 shares of the stock, and that it still stood in her name on the books of the bank, and that she possessed property in her own right sufficient to pay such assessment: Held, on demurrer to the bill that, so far as appeared, the remedy was in equity, and the bill was sufficient on its face.</p>