Steinbrecher v. Fairfield County Trust Co.

By a complaint dated February 7, 1966, the plaintiff brought action against the defendant to recover a total of $3000 on five checks of $600 each drawn by the maker against its checking account in the defendant. Four of the cheeks were *395returned dishonored and unpaid. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained on the ground, directed to a claim of law asserted in the complaint, that the defendant was not a quasi receiver of the funds of the drawer and the checks did not constitute an “equitable assignment pro tanto of a special fund.” The court, Stapleton, J., relied, in its decision, on our…