Russ Lumber & Mill Co. v. Hellman Commercial Trust & Savings Bank

PARKER, J., pro tem.

This case is a sequel to the case of Russ Lumber & Mill Co. v. Peoples Trust & Savings Bank, reported in 76 Cal. App., page 438 [244 Pac. 934]. In that case the plaintiff herein recovered a judgment against the Peoples Trust & Savings Bank on certain orders for lumber and building material which had been given to the Russ Lumber & Mill Company in the name of the Peoples Trust & Savings Bank by its president, J. C. Odell. It was decided in the former case that these orders were obligations of the bank. That judgment being paid only in part, the Russ Lumber & Mill Company…