Shaw v. Lamar County

(after stating the facts as above). In James Shaw, Banking Commissioner, v. Lamar County, 4 S.W.(2d) 608, this court held that the deposits in the |Dallas bank to the credit of “Lamar County School Fund, G. R. Coleman, Co. Treasurer,” referred to in the statement above, constituted a- trust fund in Coleman’s hands for the benefit of Lamar county. The main controversy in the court below, in this case, was, it seems, as to whether the $28,000 of that fund passed to the credit of the Paris bank on its account with the Dallas bank in conformity to the order of Coleman, trustee of the fund, as…