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BANK RECEIVER WINS OUT. Eastern Stockholders in Broken Washington Banks Must Pay Their Assessments. BOSTON, March -The full bench of the supreme court has rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff in the case of Leonard Howarth, receiver, Vs. Benjamin Lombard, jr., holding that the defendant is bound to pay an assessment levied by the state of Washington supreme court upon stockholders in the Traders' bank of Tacoma, which was judicially declared insolvent some years ago. The court holds that the plaintiff. as receiver of the bank, can recover the assessment in this suit. A like decision was also rendered by the same court in the case of George G. King. receiver of the Washington Savings bank of Seattle vs. James W. Vinal et al., another action to enforce a liability under the law of the same state resting upon the defendants as stockholders in the plaintiffs defunct bank
