Winkler v. Veigel

In overruling a demurrer to the complaint the court certified the questions presented important and doubtful. Defendant appeals. The substantial facts stated in the complaint are these:

The Farmers State Bank of Holdingford is in the hands of defendant for liquidation. While it was a going concern plaintiffs paid to the bank as their agent $253.23 to be remitted to the county treasurer at St. Cloud for payment of taxes for 1926 upon certain real estate owned by them in Stearns county and received from the cashier of the bank a receipt so stating. The sum so receipted for was paid to the bank…