McCready v. Farmers Bank of Ashland

Plaintiff; Earl McCready, in an action at law, averred the deposit of a sum of money with the appellee bank on July 19, 1937, and in acknowledgment thereof he received a certificate of deposit which recited that it was “payable to the order of self on the return of this certificate properly endorsed”; that two days thereafter the certificate was stolen by' an unidentified party, and its present whereabouts is unknown; that the bank was promptly notified thereof; that the certificate had not been endorsed by him and he had not negotiated it. Plaintiff further pleaded that on several occasions…