Birmingham & Atlantic Air-Line Railroad & Banking Co. v. Walker

1. In defense to an action brought by the plaintiff, a corporation, against Mrs. Emma Walker as executrix of West, its deceased treasurer, for money alleged to have been received by him and not accounted for, she undertook to set up that a certain certificate of deposit, which had been issued by a bank to West as the treasurer of the plaintiff, was not founded upon any bona fide or valuable consideration, did *184not really represent any actual deposit made by West in the bank, and that his sole object in procuring this certificate was to enable the corporation to secure a charter in another…