Standard Grain Co. v. State Bank

Dorsey, O.

This case was commenced by the appellee, a corporation *74dealing in grain on the Omaha Grain Exchange, in the form of a suit in equity, praying for an accounting by the appellant, a banking institution of Omaha, for the value of the contents of three cars of corn which the appellee alleged had been converted to its own use by the appellant as the result of wrongful negotiation through it of the bills of lading therefor, and asking that the amount thereof be applied upon the notes of the appellee which the appellant held. In its answer, the appellant pleaded a denial of the alleged…