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BEGIN HEARING OF SUIT AGAINST DEFUNCT BANK CASSOPOLIS, May 16. - Hearing of the suit of Calvin Jones, Jones, Mich., farmer against the First State Savings bank of Marcellus, now in the hands of a receiver, for $15,000, started here Monday before Circuit Judge L. B. Des Voignes and jury. Jones went into court as trustee and assignee for the Jones Cooperative Society, George W. Rumsey, William Irvin and Frank Everhard, all creditors of the Farmers and Merchants bank of Jones that failed a year ago. The creditors allege that the Jones bank was a branch of the Marcellus bank. Attorneys for the bank objected to more than one suit against it tried at the same time and the court ordered a severance of the plaintiffs. the Calvin Jones claim beBy bringing suit the creditors foring heard alone. feited their right to share in the assets of the Jones bank,