State ex rel. Beck v. National Bank

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This is an appeal from a judgment overruling a demurrer to an amended petition in which the state seeks to recover from the defendant bank the sum of $150,000, which it is alleged the bank misappropriated and misapplied to its own use out of state funds deposited in the bank.

This civil action is one consequence of a series of crimes pertaining to misuse of state funds, various chapters of which are chronicled in our reports, and which culminated in the incarceration in the penitentiary of two of the participants and the suicide after…