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BANK SUIT ENDS IN Merchants And Farmers Gets More Than $35,000 As Result Of Decision SPARTANBURG Feb 17.-Compromise of suit brought by John A Law. Jr. as receiver for the Merchants and Farmers bank against Albert Lohm, for the First and the Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, for the First National bank as receiver the Merchants and Farmers bank has been approved by Judge T. S Sease circuit jurist Under the settlement the Merchants and Farmers bank will lose but total claim against the First National and its surety Judge Sease pointed out in his order approving the settlement that the compromise will be to the best interest of depositors in that the delay of prosecuting the action will be It was further pointed out in the that no dividends have paid depositors of the Merchants and Farmers bank which has been closed now for two and half years and that prosecution of the action will further delay this resources, such cooperation between police departments and central organization would be virtually impossible because of lack of funds Although the identification bureau of the police dehas only about year already 1,500 suspects have and photographed Many of these records are filed in duplicate in Washington