Island City Savings Bank v. Sachtleben

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee against appellant to recover the balance of a bank deposit. Appellant denied that appellee had ever made any deposit with, it, and alleged in its answer that the transactions upon which appellant had brought this suit took place before it, the defendant company, was organized. The nature of this defense appears more distinctly from the facts as found by the court below, which we here copy in full:

“The Island City Savings Bank was incorporated with banking privileges by special law of legislature of June 20, ] 870, and its charter…