Smith v. Richland State Bank

This suit involves the correctness of a credit entry of One Thousand Four Hundred ($1,400) Dollars made by Mr. W.W. Kelly, defendant's assistant cashier, in the savings account book issued by it to the plaintiff. Plaintiff contends that the credit was properly made after she had counted out to the officer this amount in currency. The bank's contention is that the entry was made through error and had not as its basis any deposit whatever.

Plaintiff opened a savings account with defendant on April 19, 1940, by depositing $780 in currency. On April 29th she made another deposit to this account…