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HARPER LOSES BANK SUIT Sopreme Coort decisions in four Washington bank cases to day placed depositors one step nearer to receiving additional money from the coffers of District financial institutions tied hp since the 1932 bank holiday. The court denied a petition of Robert N. Harper for a review of a decision of the District Court of Appeals which held that stockholders of the North Capitol Savings Bank were liable for a 100per cent stock assessment made by the Comptroller General. The bank was organized under the laws of Arizona. Mr. Harper was sued by John F. Moran, receiver of the bank for a $1,500 stock assessment. Directors Lose Fight The court likewise denied the petition of Joseph W. Thompson and John F. Moran, receiver of the Park Savings Bank, for a review of the District Court of Appeals decision holding that stockholders and the receivers could not sue directors of the bank because it continued business after the bank's Alabama charter expired August, 1929. Another angle of the bank situation was finally decided when the court denied the petition of Cary A. Hardee, receiver of the Federal American National Bank and Trust Company, for review of the decision holding him obligated to pay $2,273 unpaid taxes to the American Security and Trust Company. The case grew out of a foreclosure of a mortgage on an apartment house in the 2900 block of Fourteenth Street N. W.