MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER, after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
This is not a case involving the rights of creditors or of minority stockholders as such, but a case raising the bare question to whom assets remaining on a valid reduction of the capital stock of a national bank belong.
The National Banking Act (Title LXII, Rev. Stat.) provides:
"SEC. 5143. Any association formed under this title may, by the vote of...
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