James

In the Superior Court of the State of California

In and for the County of Butte.

A. L. James, as Receiver of the First National Bank of Gridley, an Insolvent Corporation. Plaintiff, vs. No. 9157. J. A. Schaefer and Clara E. Schaefer, Defendants.

This is an action in equity in the nature of a cred. itor’s bill by the Receiver of the defunct First National Bank of Gridley, California, seeking to recover from the Defendant, J. A. Schaefer, the former President and Manager of said Bank, certain sums of money.

At the time of the institution of the suit by the filing of the complaint both the defendant J. A. Schaefer and the defendant Clara E. Schaefer, wife of J. A. Schaefer, were non residents of the State of California ' and actually resided in the State of Indiana. The Plaintiff, after setting out his cause of action seeking , to recover a money judgment also alleged that the only property which the defendant J. A. Schaefer was *130 possessed of in the State of California was the property described in the complaint and alleging that the defendant J. A. Schaefer, after he had become indebted to the bank in a large sum of money, fraudulently and for the purpose of hindering,…