Citizens National Bank v. State ex rel. Kellogg

101 N.E. 620, 179 Ind. 621, 1913 Ind. LEXIS 79
CourtIndiana Supreme Court
DecidedApril 23, 1913
DocketNo. 21,917
StatusPublished
Cited by4 cases

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Bluebook
Citizens National Bank v. State ex rel. Kellogg, 101 N.E. 620, 179 Ind. 621, 1913 Ind. LEXIS 79 (Ind. 1913).

Opinion

Erwin, J.

This was a suit by appellee against appellant in the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, on a complaint for mandate, in one paragraph, which complaint, omitting the formal parts is as follows: “Plaintiff complains of the defendant and says that the defendant is now and has been for-years last past, a corporation duly organized under the laws of the United States as a National Bank; that said defendant during all of said time has been engaged in the banking business as a National Bank in the city of Evansville, Indiana. This relatrix avers that on the 3rd day of October, 1905, she became the owner of seventy (70) shares of the par value of one hundred dollars per share of the capital stock of said bank; that said shares and the certificate representing the same were duly issued to this relatrix on the 3rd day of October, 1905, and the rel'atrix is and was on the 3rd day of October, 1905, the owner of the same in her own right, and is in possession of said certificate. That on the-day of January, 1910, as the relatrix was informed the capital stock of the defendant bank had become impaired, and the relatrix was, on the 21st day of January, 1910, notified by the directors of the defendant bank that the capital stock had been impaired and that it was necessary that the deficiency be made up by an assessment on the shareholders pro rata to the amount of the capital stock of each shareholder; that the proportion of said assessment made against the relatrix, on account of her stock amounted to seven thousand dollars; that a meeting of the shareholders of the defendant bank would be held on the 21st day of February, 1910, at the said defendant Citizens National Bank, for the purpose of considering and voting on the question of paying the assessment, within [624]*624three months from the 21st day of January, 1910, the date of the notice received from the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States of the impairment of the capital stock. That the relatrix was informed that at said meeting of the said shareholders of the defendant, The Citizens National Bank, that said assessment was voted. That thereafter on the 10th day of February, the relatrix notified the defendant, in writing, that she intended to pay and would pay her.assessment of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) upon the said stock so held by her in said bank, and thereafter, to' wit: on the 24th day of February, 1910, and within less than three months after the receipt of said notice of said assessment, the relatrix tendered the said defendant seven thousand dollars ($7,000) to cover and pay said assessment; that the defendant wrongfully refused to afecept and receive the same and wrongfully refused to treat the relatrix as a stockholder and wholly denied her the rights and privileges of the stockholders, and wrongfully refused to acknowledge her as a stockholder in The Citizens National Bank. That thereafter the relatrix again, to wit: on the 11th day of March, 1910, and within the three months given the relatrix, under the law of the United States, to pay said assessment tendered to the defendant the sum of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) in gold coin of the United States in the value of seven thousand dollars ($7,000) in payment of said assessment against the relatrix on account of said stock in said bank and that said defendant wrongfully refused to accept and receive said money in payment of said assessment, and refused to acknowledge any of the relatrix’s rights and privileges as a stockholder in said bank and denied that the said relatrix was the owner of said stock or any other stock in said defendant’s bank. That the defendant does now and has at all times since the 14th day of February, 1910, refused to recognize the plaintiff as a stockholder in said bank and has denied, and now denies [625]*625her any and all the rights and privileges of a stockholder. That on the - day of January, 1910, the said bank declared and paid to its other stockholders a dividend on the stock held by them at said time, that said dividend amounted to three per cent of the par value of said stock so held by the other stockholders; but that the defendant has wrongfully failed and refused to pay said dividends or any part thereof to the relatrix, although entitled thereto as a stockholder as aforesaid. That the relatrix has at all times since the 24th day of February, 1910, and now is ready and willing and able to pay said assessment on her said stock of seven thousand dollars; and now offers and is willing, ready and able so to do whenever the defendant will accept and receive the same. "Wherefore the plaintiff asks an alternative writ of mandate issue out of this court commanding the defendant to appear and show cause why a peremptory writ of mandate should not issue in this cause, demanding the defendant to recognize the relatrix as the owner of seventy shares of the capital stock of the defendant, the said Citizens National Bank, as represented by the certificate of stock now owned and held by heir, and that she be recognized and granted the privileges and rights due her as such stockholder and that she be declared the owner of said seventy (70) shares of capital stock of said company of the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) each and for all other proper relief.”

To this complaint appellant demurred for want of sufficient facts to constitute a cause of action. This demurrer was overruled by the court, to which ruling appellant excepted. Appellant then answered said complaint in three paragraphs. The first was a general denial. The second paragraph of answer, omitting the formal parts is in the words and figures following, to-wit: “The defendant for a further and second paragraph of answer to plaintiff’s complaint says that prior to the 21st day of February, [626]*6261910, the relatrix was the owner o£ seventy shares of the par value of one hundred dollars ($100) per share of the capital stock of the defendant bank.”

Appellant further avers in its second paragraph of answer that the appellee or relatrix sold and transferred to Hilary E. Bacon and Charles 'W. Cook, on January —, 1910, the said seventy shares of stock mentioned in plaintiff’s complaint, and that said Bacon and Cook, in their individual capacity, purchased the same from said relatrix; the said Bacon and said Cook afterwards, to wit: on January —, presented to the defendant bank the seventy shares of stock to be transferred on the books of said bank, and said last mentioned time the said stock was transferred to said Bacon and the said Cook by the defendant bank and since the last named day the said bank has-recognized the said Bacon and the said Cook and their assigns as the owners of the said seventy shares of stock mentioned in plaintiff’s complaint. And that since January —, 1910, when said stock was sold and transferred to the said Bacon and the said Cook, the said relatrix has not owned, nor is she now the owner of any of the shares of the capital stock in the defendant bank. The third paragraph of answer is similar to the second, except that in alleging the sale of the stock they aver that at the time hereinafter mentioned and prior thereto one Okley H. Kellogg is, and was the duly authorized and acting agent and attorney of the said relatrix and was empowered and authorized by said relatrix to sell and transfer for her, and in her name, the said stock, owned and held by said relatrix as aforesaid.

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