Jordan Marsh Co. v. National Shawmut Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Seven actions oe contract to recover from the defendants, in whose several banks the plaintiff was a depositor, the amounts of forty-two checks, aggregating $15,684.20, alleged to have been paid by the defendants and charged to the plaintiff’s accounts without its authority.
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Seven actions oe contract to recover from the defendants, in whose several banks the plaintiff was a depositor, the amounts of forty-two checks, aggregating $15,684.20, alleged to have been paid by the defendants and charged to the plaintiff’s accounts without its authority. Writs in the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk dated June 19, 1905. The cases were referred to James D. Colt, Esquire, as auditor, to be heard together, and afterward were heard together by Fessenden, J., upon the auditor’s report. He found pro forma for the defendants, in accordance with the rulings of the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
These are seven actions, brought against seven corporations doing a banking business in the city of Boston. In each of these banks or banking companies the plaintiff was a depositor. The actions are all of the same character, and the opinion in the first of them will be equally applicable to all the others. The declaration contains two counts, one for money had and received, to recover the balance of the plaintiff’s deposit after a demand, and the other setting forth the contract between the plaintiff and the defendant, and that the plaintiff made sundry checks, payable in part to the order…
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