Richter

This is an action to enforce contribution by defendants as stockholders in the FruitvaleWine and Fruit Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the state of California, on account of money paid by the assignor of plaintiff upon a judgment against the stockholders in said corporation, and in favor of the United States, for eighteen hundred and twenty-seven dollars and forty cents, due to the United States as a balance on a tax of ninety cents per gallon upon the distillation of five thousand five hundred and eighty-six gallons of brandy and spirits by said corporation, between August 1, 1887, and September 22, 1887, which judgment is-averred to have been paid February 2, 1892, by the-First National Bank of Fresno, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, a stockholder in the corporation first named, and one of the defendants and judgment debtors in said judgment in favor of the United States.' Plaintiff, as the assigneeof said First National Bank of Fresno, had judgment in the court below against sundry of the defendants herein, *533 and against the defendant L. A. Blasingame, for two hundred and…