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A BLOW TO THE RECEIVER. F. K. Robinson of Winfield Mortgage Co. Ordered to Return $20,000. Winfield, Kan., Dec. 2.-Frank K. Robinson, receiver for the Winfield Mortgage & Trust company, in the district court was ordered to pay back into the trust the sum of $15,000 which the court declared to have been fraudulently and wrongfully obtained and sequestered by the receiver. He was also ordered to pay into the court the $4,400, which in his report of 1901, intended to be final, he had acknowledged had been realized in closing up the affairs of the company. Some other minor items and offsets were allowed, and receiver given a stay of execution for 90 days to make case for appeal. The Trust company is also allowed 90 days to make case on some of its contentions which were denied, but on the whole the decision is a substantial victory for the trust as against the receiver.
