State Ex Rel. Arndt v. Cox

This is an original proceeding in this court by certiorari for the purpose of having this court quash the opinion and judgment of the Springfield Court of Appeals in the case of Arndt v. Frye, 20 S.W.2d 920. The case in question was a suit brought by plaintiffs Arndt as depositors in the failed Bank of Battlefield against the defendant William Frye, the president of the failed bank, to collect from him the amount of the deposit lost to such plaintiffs by reason of the bank's failure. That suit was brought and tried in the Circuit Court of Greene county and was based on the provisions of…