W. J. Howey Co. v. Cole

Plaintiff filed his petition in the Moniteau county circuit court on the 14th day of April, 1922, seeking to recover on a certain time certificate of deposit purported to have been issued by the McGirk State Bank on or about the 29th day of August, 1921, in the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300) payable six months after date to the order of one “Mark Y. Packard, Trastee.” The McGirk State Bank closed its doors on the 6th day of September, 1921, and defendant A. B. Cole, as Special Deputy Commissioner of Finance of this State, took charge of its affairs on the 23rd day of September,…