City National Bank of Fort Worth v. Martin

Maltbie, Presiding Judge.

John Nichols was the receiving- and paying teller, also a director and. vice president of appellant, the City National Bank, of Fort Worth, and died insolvent, on the seventeenth day of August, 1885, a defaulter to the bank, in the sum of thirty thousand dollars. During the year 1884, and up to the time of Nichols’s death, the appellee, D. C. Martin, was a customer of the bank, and in the month of December-deposited with it the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars, ' .- Nichols receiving it for the bank. At the time of making this, deposit, Martin requested…