State ex rel. Davis v. Farmers & Merchants Bank

This is an action wherein the appellant intervenes in the suit as a claimant of a deposit in an insolvent bank in the hands of a receiver, seeking to have its claim allowed and ordered paid out of the bank guarantee fund. The petition is in the usual form in such cases, and alleges that the *379deposit is one made by the Morrill Motor Company, hereinafter termed the motor company, as a distinct entity, and assigned to it. The receiver answers, ádmitting the deposit as one in the ordinary course of banking business for the amount stated, but that the motor company was a trade name only, adopted by…