Leach v. Plymouth County Savings Bank

Robert L. Leach, as superintendent of banking, was appointed receiver for the Plymouth County Savings Bank on the 17th day of January, 1925. The city of LeMars and R. C. Bartels, city treasurer, filed a claim with the receiver, asking that the claim be allowed as a preferred claim. The case was submitted without any oral testimony, on an agreed statement of facts. The material part necessary for the disposition of the case is, in substance, as follows: That Bartels, as city treasurer, at various times made deposits in said bank of city funds, and the same were carried in the bank books under…