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includes the Crystal Springs school district of Kidder county, the Northern and Dakota Trust company. of Fargo, the Dakota Savings bank, of Fargo, the First State bank. insolvent, of Crystal Springs, and L. R. Baird, state receiver of failed banks. The case is a complicated affair based on the erection of schools at bond A Crystal Springs in 1920. issue of $26,000 was authorized, $4,000 of which was to pay indebtedness on a school building and the remaining $22,000 of which was to pay for the erection of a four-room building. By the floating of the bonds the various plaintiffs of the case were created. When the legality of the bonds was challenged, although signed by the officers of the school district, another complication was created by the failure of the Crystal Springs State bank. A suit for collection cf the warrants issued for payment of the school building resulted and this suit was before the court today cn the motion to dismiss. Where the money is that was raised on the bonds was one of the mysteries that cropped out in the hearing today. Either it is in the Fargo bank or has been paid over to the school district and has gone into its funds. Attorney Gallagher suggested that an accounting was in