Hair v. Winnsboro Bank
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Prince, J., Winnsboro, October, 1915. Action by Jennie B. Hair against the Winnsboro Bank. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The charge of the Circuit Judge was as follows: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury: The plaintiff comes into Court and alleges in her complaint against the Winnsboro Bank that at the time mentioned in the complaint she had on deposit in said bank in the savings department an amount exceeding two thousand dollars.
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Before Prince, J., Winnsboro, October, 1915. Action by Jennie B. Hair against the Winnsboro Bank. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The charge of the Circuit Judge was as follows: Mr. Foreman and Gentlemen of the Jury: The plaintiff comes into Court and alleges in her complaint against the Winnsboro Bank that at the time mentioned in the complaint she had on deposit in said bank in the savings department an amount exceeding two thousand dollars. She alleges, in the second place, that that bank paid numerous, checks which she sets out in her complaint, aggregating twenty-four…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Watts.
This was an action by plaintiff against the defendant to recover the sum of $2,476. Plaintiff alleged that during the years 1909 and 1910 she had on deposit with the defendant bank a sum in excess of $4,000; that during these years the defendant charged against her account $2,476 on a number of checks purporting to be signed by her, but which checks were in truth and fact forgeries; that she made demand upon the bank for repayment, but her demand had been refused. The defendant denied that the checks were forged, but alleged that if…
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