Merrick v. Merchants National Bank

This case was submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts and involves an important and. somewhat novel question.

The action is one in replevin and was brought to recover the possession of a certain check or draft drawn on February 9, 1899, by one T. W. Symons, a United States lighthouse engineer, .for the sum of $1,521.41. It was drawn upon the assistant treasurer of the .United States at New York and was payable to the order of the East Side Construction Company.

A summary of the agreed statement of facts is as follows: On and prior to January 21, 1897, Charles R. Leggett £nd…