Gentry County Drainage District v. Farmers & Mechanics Bank

— This is a proceeding to have declared preferred a claim of $1014.43, part of the proceeds of taxes collected in behalf of the plaintiff Drainage District, and deposited in the Farmers & Mechanics Bank of Stanberry, Missouri.

It appears plaintiff is a legally organized drainage district in Gentry county, Missouri, and defendant • bank was a corporation engaged in general banking business in Stanberry in said county. On January 12, 1925, Grace Ross, collector of Cooper township in said county, delivered to E. C. Lockwood, treasurer of the drainage district, her check for $1014.43, payable to…