MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS, after making the above statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
The single question for our determination is whether the Comptroller of the Currency, acting under the national banking laws, can validly make more than one assessment upon the shareholders of an insolvent national banking association.
It is not denied by the plaintiff in error that the first assessment, which he voluntarily paid, was insufficient to pay the debts and...
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