First Nat. Bank of Montgomery v. Montgomery Cotton Mfg. Co.

This is a suit by the Montgomery Cotton Manufacturing Company, a | corporation, against the First National Bank of Montgomery, a corporation, for damages for conversion by defendant of a check dated June 17, 1922, drawn by Robert McK. Jones & Co. upon the First National Bank of St. Louis, Mo., payable to the order of the Montgomery Cotton Manufacturing Company, plaintiff, in the sum of $2,500.

The defendant pleaded general issue, not guilty, with leave to give in evidence in defense any matter that might be specially .pleaded. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and, from a…