Kinney v. Bank of Plymouth

Plymouth is a town of about 300 inhabitants, situated in Cerro Gordo County. For nearly twenty years prior to the matters involved in this case a private bank had been conducted in said town under the name and style of the Bank of Plymouth. The owners of said bank were F. G. Ehlers and R. Valentine, and said parties had the sum of $5000 invested as capital in said enterprise. Valentine appears to have been a silent partner and to have had no active part in the management of the affairs of the bank. Ehlers and his son had charge of the bank.

In the year 1918 a new bank was organized in said…