Warren County Bank v. Keister

Action by appellee, as administrator, to recover from appellant funds of the estate of Jonathan Hess, deceased, deposited by him in his lifetime with appellant and charged to have been paid out by the bank on the checks of L. A. Hess, purporting to act at the time as the administrator of the estate but without authority so to do.

The facts involved, as they appear in the special findings, are substantially as follows: Jonathan Hess died October 4, 1916, at the time a resident of Williams-port, Warren county, Indiana. On February 3, 1911, and while a resident of the State of Illinois he…