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JURY'S VERDICT FOR P. B. BANK IN $5,000 Fact That Had Been Made To Draw Funds from Failing Bank Scores Victory for the Defendent circuit court o'clock returned verdict favoring the Bank Poplar Bluff in the $5,000 against by Mrs. Ethel local woman. who moved here something over ayear ago from 'uxico. The verdict favored the defendant to the permitting such verdict rendered in civil aetion, The deliberation of the jury but fifteen minutes. The point which the verdict given to that Matt was Reichert, husband the plaintiff admitted the witness stand that be had an effort to get money his wife at the bank but had failed to do so for obvious This was prior to the reasons, transaction attempted to make the Poplar Bluff the agency through which the money could be Mrs. Richert owned five and dollar time of Issued by the Bank of Puxico posit that she for rimembered that the Bank Puxice failure on the 24th of 1923. Thirteen days before the bank suspended Mrs. Reichert drew draft on the Bank of Púxico in favor the Bank of Poplar Bluff for $5,000 for the purpose transferring her money from Puxico to the local bank This draft forwarded through the mails to Fuxico collection After some silght delay Puxico draft the Citizens Company Gorin. Missouri, for and mailed the Bank of Poplar Bluff in payment of Mrs. draft draft on Gor on Sunday 1923 and forwarded by the Bank of Poplar Bluff through its St Louis collection the same day. It by on December that the draft on Corin was dishon and for non On the days fore the bank Puxico finally closed its doors on the Bank Poplar Bluff few demands by telephone on the Bank of Puxico for payment evidence showed Bank Puxico promised but failed Mrs. Reichert claimed that the Bank Poplar Bluff should have jected the draft the Titizen's Trust Company of Gorin and insist Instead payment currency coin, and for doing sued for the amount the face her draft the Bank of Puxico $5,000 The of Poplar Bluff that made repeated demands both before and provisionally accepted draft on the Bank Gorin. that did all that required or possible do and and undertook show that the Bank Puxico was for sometime before it ceased operations on December 24. 1923. hopelemsly insol vent John Gloriod. who has charge of the liquidation of the fairs ofthe Bank of Puxico for the finance commissioner testified witness for the Bank of Poplar Bluff that the depositors the Bank would not be likely to more than ten cents the their claims and of the a total loss on