Kidder v. Hall

This is an original action for mandamus against the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking and the State Banking Board, to compel the former, (a) to allow a claim against the Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Ranger, an insolvent State bank; (b) to classfy the claim as a noninterest-bearing and unsecured deposit; and (c) to require the State Banking Board to pay the claim thus allowed and classified out of the Depositors’ Guaranty Fund provided for by the banking laws of the State.

On October 24, 1921, E. A. Estes purchased, in the usual way, from the Farmers & Merchants State Bank of Ranger,…