Donnelly v. Hodgson

Ellen Donnelly, a judgment creditor of the Butchers and Drovers’ Bank, exhibited for allowance in the probate court a demand against the estate of James B. Clemens, deceased, which was allowed and placed in the sixth class. On appeal to the circuit court, the same judgment was rendered, and ordered to be certified to the probate court.

There is an agreed statement of facts to the following effect: —

The Butchers and Drovers’ Bank was incorporated in 1867, and did a banking business in St. Louis until July *1613, 1877, when it ceased to receive deposits. Ellen Donnelly was then a deposit creditor of…