Gardiner v. Fulton, Supt. of Banks

This action is in this court on appeal from a decree and judgment of the court of common pleas allowing as a preferred claim certain amounts to be paid from the assets of the Ohio Savings Bank Trust Company, now in process of liquidation by Ira J. Fulton, the superintendent of banks.

Six separate actions filed in the court of common pleas were consolidated, and thereafter heard and considered as one, and are now presented to this court, as in the court of common pleas, on a motion for judgment on the pleadings. Each of the plaintiffs in the actions so brought was an heir of John T. Coghlin,…