Modoc County Bank v. Ringling

MORROW, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff in error, a California banking corporation, was defendant in the court below. Defendants in error are citizens of Montana, and were plaintiffs in the court below. For convenience they will hereinafter be designated as plaintiffs and defendant, as in the lower court.

Plaintiffs were copartners in 1922, engaged in the buying and selling of sheep and lambs.

The cause of action was for money had and received in 1922 by the Alturas State Bank to recover from the defendant, the successor of said bank, the sum advanced by plaintiffs and paid to the Alturas State Bank…