CHRISTOPHER v. BRUSSELBACK

No. 108.

302 U.S. 500 (1938)

CHRISTOPHER ET AL. v. BRUSSELBACK ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Wellmore B. Turner, with whom Messrs. Roy G. Fitzgerald, Robert E. Cowden, Howard P. Williamson, Joseph W. Sharts, Eugene G. Kennedy, Irvin G. Bieser, F.N.R. Redfern and James E. Thomas were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. J. Arthur Miller for respondents.


MR. JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

Respondents, creditors of a Federal Joint Stock Land Bank located in Illinois, brought the present suit in the district court for southern Ohio to collect a 100% assessment of the statutory double liability of its shareholders, which had previously been decreed in a suit brought by respondents in the district court for northern Illinois. In the Illinois suit the bank and all its stockholders were named as parties...

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