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ENOS NOTE TANGLE Savings Bank Wins Suit to Recover Paper A decision settling, in so far as the Ramsey county district court is concerned, a litigation in which four banks and half a dozen individuals are involved, was announced yesterday by Judge Lewis. The matter was that of the petition of Charles E. Otis, receiver of the Savings bank of St. Paul and the Mechanics National bank of New York, to discover the legal claims of Fred M. Loomis to collect upon a note for $10,000 given by the Savings bank of St. Paul to the Allemannia bank for sixty days in 1896. Judge Lewis decides that the note had been fully paid by the Savings bank and orders Fred M. Loomis, holder of the note, to turn over collateral which he holds to Messrs. Nixon and Sheehan, receivers of the Minnesota Savings bank, and to Judge Otis, receiver of the Savings bank of St. Paul. In the summer of 1896 the $10,000 note, secured by `realty mortgages and bonds was given by the Savings Bank of St. Paul to the Allemannia bank, for sixty days. Shortly afterwards the Allemannia bank, the Savings bank having suspended in the meantime, and itself being hard pressed for funds, discounted the note to the Mechanics National bank of New York. Soon afterwards the Allemannia bank failed. Later it reopened its doors and payments were begun upon the note. These payments were credited to the account of the Mechanics National on the local bank's books and finally the note was completely satisfied and was returned shortly after the bank had suspended for the second and last time. W. F. Hunt, the receiver, came into possession of the note which had been returned, made on the Savings bank and found only a couple of small payment indorsements upon its back, so he concluded that it was still negotiable property and Fred M. Loomis bought it, together with certain of the securities which had been given when the note was first made. Investigations showed that the note was fully satisfied and the suit resulted to ascertain the claims of Mr. Loomis for collection.