Hill Syrup Co. v. Marine National Bank

The plaintiff syrup company seeks recovery from the defendant bank of the sum of $5,007.77, claimed by the company to have been paid to the bank by W. E. Sander, president and general manager of the company, from its funds without authority from its trustees, upon a debt owing by him personally to the bank, under circumstances charging the bank with notice of such want of authority and of the fact that the funds so paid were the property of the company. A trial in the superior court for King county, sitting without a jury, resulted in findings and judgment awarding to the company recovery as…