People ex rel. Nelson v. Citizens State Bank

This is an appeal by the receiver from an order allowing Rose Fippinger and certain other intervening petitioners a preference as against all the assets of an insolvent bank now in the hands of a receiver.

The Citizens State Bank of Melrose Park, Illinois, was closed by the auditor of public accounts on October 24, 1930, and Louis E. Nelson was appointed receiver for the bank, which appointment was subsequently approved and confirmed by the circuit court.

July 31, 1933, the petitioner filed her intervening petition, in which various other persons joined, asking that they be allowed a preferred…