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EIGHTH HEARING IN HOLLAND SUIT Litigation Over $130,000 to Come Up This Mohth in St. Paul Court The case which attorneys for the defunct Holland Banking company have won seven times will enter court again this time at St. Paul, Minn., in the federal court of appeals. rington, Springfield attorneys, will leave for St. Paul May to defend the Holland bank receiver's right wards of Kansas City heads the Фposing On September 5, 1927, the Holland bank received a judgment for about $97 against the Continental National bank of Jackson county. Mo., Kansas City, in the Pettis county circuit court at Sedalia. It was charged that in 1922, E L Sanford personally borrowed $100.000 from the Continental bank to buy additional Holland bank stock, and that the Holland bank paid the debt. The Kansas City attorneys claimed Sanford had paid the Holland bank. When the judgment for the Springfield concern was returned, an appeal was made. Later appeals have been made Mr. Patterson said today that the case had been won twice in the supreme court of the state of Missouri, once in the supreme court of the United States. once in the United States district court of Kansas City, and in the court. of appeals at St. Louis. Each time, the appeal has been made by the Kansas City bank. which had capital stock of $1 000,0000 and paid off $500,000 when it went into voluntary liquidation Interest at six percent for the past six years since the judgment was first returned has increased the amount at stake to about $130,000.