Frost National Bank of San Antonio v. Dobbs

BARROW, Chief Justice.

Appellees, V. E. Dobbs and wife, Charlotte Dobbs, filed this suit to recover the sum of $3,000.00, being the proceeds of a check deposited to their account in appellant Bank on Friday, November 6, 1964, and charged back on Monday, November 9, 1964, because the drawer purportedly stopped payment on same. Appellant, hereinafter sometimes referred to as Frost Bank, filed a third-party action against Rollin B. Ballard, independent executor and residuary devisee of the Estate of Mrs. Margaret Irvin Sullivan, the drawer of the check, who died on December IS, 1964. This…