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MEYER v. HERNETT
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the Farmers’ Co-operative Company. If any one has any complaint of the way in which these moneys have been disbursed, it is these men, and not the Farmers’ Co-operative Company, which corporation confessedly received the benefit of some $1,122.74, belonging to these men. There is no contention that the defendant did not account fully for other moneys received and disbursed by him. And, in our opinion, the trial court was entirely correct in finding that the defendant had fully accounted for all moneys received and disbursed as treasurer of the Farmers’ Co-operative Company.

The plaintiff contends that the defendant is estopped from claiming that the moneys received by him on subscriptions belonged to the six persons who signed and paid the notes to the Hastings Industrial Company, for the reason that these persons have presented claims to the receiver, which claims, it is asserted, in part, are for moneys paid by such persons to the Hastings Industrial Company. In our opinion this contention is without merit. There is no contention that the claims presented are for anything except what these persons were required to pay to the Hastings Industrial Company in excess of what was received from the subscribers. There is nothing to indicate that any action has been taken thereon by the receiver whatsoever, and manifestly he has in no manner been prejudiced by the presentation of the claims. It appears from the evidence that the very moneys involved in this controversy had all been received by the defendant and disbursed long before the claims were presented to the receiver And the claims were prepared on the theory that the moneys received by the defendant from the subscribers had all been received and disbursed by him, as the evidence in this case shows them to have been received and disbursed. As already indicated, it does not appear whether the claims have been allowed or disallowed. The presumption, of course, is that such action, and such action only, has been, or will be, taken, with respect thereto, as the law and facts warrant. The judgment appealed from is affirmed.

Robinson, Birdzell and Bronson, JJ., concur.

Grace, C. J., concurs in the result.