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Show I BANKER NEED NOT REPAY DEPOSITORS SPRINGFIELD, 111. June 22. (By the Associated Press.) Cornelius EC. G, Billings, former president and di-rector di-rector of the Home Savings bank of j ( hie. i go. which closed its doors Doc IK. 1905, owing depositors $200,000, was Wedn"-d.i vivr d from the nrt-cesslty nrt-cesslty of restitution by the statute of limitation" Without directl passing pass-ing on his liability as a director, the I court. In an opinion written by Jus-i tlce Dunn, held that the action , brought by Abraham Decker, stock-, I holder, 12 years after the bank Called, was barred by the statute of limlta- j lions in Billings' case as well as In ' the cose of other bank directors. A I former ruling of the supreme court in :.i Billings liable |