Bureau Marketing Service v. Lewis

This appeal is in two eases, consolidated and tried together as equity cases in the district court of Clarke county, Iowa, one being entitled Bureau Marketing Service of Osceola, Iowa, and Mrs. B. E. Agans v. Receiver of Simmons & Co., Bankers of Osceola, Iowa, and First National Bank of Chicago ; the other case was entitled J. D. Shively and against the same defendants. For convenience, the two cases will be hereafter called the Bureau Marketing Service case and the Shively case.

The cases grew out of the insolvency of Simmons & Co. bankers of Osceola, Iowa. Simmons & Co. was a private bank,…