First National Bank v. Ocean National Bank

— The defendants, by their circular, solicited the accounts of the plaintiffs’ bank, and as an inducement offered to pass checks on certain places to its credit upon the day of their receipt, and to buy and sell government bonds, gold and stocks for the plaintiffs without charge. It is insisted by the appellants that this offer was so stated as to exclude the idea that the defendants gratuitously undertook the care and safe keeping of negotiable bonds; on the contrary, I think this was necessarily implied from the very nature of the offer. The plaintiffs were a bank doing business in the…