Williams v. Importers & Traders National Bank

The respective appellees are creditors of the late W. L. Prettyman, an insolvent, whose assets are being-administered by the Jennings Trust Co., as assignee, under the direction of the County Court. From the orders of that court allowing the claims of the appellees against such assets, contesting creditors, the appellants in the first case, and the assignee in the second case, prosecute these appeals.

Prettyman was a private "banker receiving savings deposits. All the claims allowed are upon his guarantees or indorsements of negotiable paper, discounted by the appellees for him, in the…