Krantz v. Oak Park Trust & Savings Bank

Plaintiff appeals from an order and judgment of the Circuit Court allowing defendant’s motion to strike plaintiff’s complaint and dismissing his suit.

It appears from the pleadings that on various dates in 1945 plaintiff issued five checks to the order of 661 Sheridan Apartments, Inc., in amounts aggregating $5,796.31; plaintiff certified four of these checks, but one, in the amount of $1,400.00, was not certified. The checks drawn upon the defendant bank were endorsed by the president of the payee corporation, cashed by him for his own purposes, paid by the bank in 1945, and charged against…