Dawkins v. Hutto

Appellee, as administrator, acting under an order of the probate court, sold a parcel of land to appellant and reported the purchase money paid, whereupon the sale was confirmed and a deed executed to the purchaser. But in truth the purchase money had not been paid. Appellee had accepted a check on a bank at Abbeville, the county seat, and had deposited it for collection with the bank at Newville in his neighborhood; the check had been sent by the depositee to the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, and before it had been returned to the drawee bank, the latter had failed, and appellee’s cheek…