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BANK CASES ARE BEING APPEALED peals from decisions of the Unit ed States district court of South Dakota involving transactions closed banks are embodied in briefs just printed here for local attorneys who are carrying the cases to the circuit court of appeals in behalf of the respective defendants One appeal concerns the action Charles Moore against the receiver of the Peoples National bank of Hot Springs in which Moore asked and was granted by district court preference the payment of three cashier's checks drawn on the Stockman's bank Hit Springs and sent the Peoples National for collection. balance in behalf of the latter bank for this and other covered in draft was the Stockmans to the Peoples bank both banks were closed before the draft cleared Moore contended that his claim should be paid full but the of the Peoples bank held that cash was the claim the transaction one The made preferred not be decision in district court for other cases in which The given for the plaindecision lift was that which E. Louise Payne seeks recovery of money paid mortgage in her favor the DeMoulin Loan and Invest ment company of Hot Springs This company deposited the monits general account in the Peoples National bank and when the bank closed the investment company's account was charged against the indebtedness of the company to the bank Mrs. Payne amount due her on that the of the mortgage payment should constitute preferred claim against the bank was resist by the bank's receiver on the grounds that was included in investment company's count. with no information con her claim to any of Both cases involve elements of importance In the preference of claims against banks and the decision of the of will of the court appeals for