United States v. National Exchange Bank

This action is brought to recover the sum of $1,259.05, the amount of a check drawn by the post-office department at Milwaukee on the defendant, in favor of one Anton Erben, and made payable to him or his order on December 3,1.889, and paid on that day by the bank to one Adolph Schuman upon a forged indorsement. The facts, about which there is no controversy, are substantially these: Borne time *164in July, 1889, Anton Erben, who had then recently come to this country from Austria, came to Milwaukee, and applied to the German Aid Society, and requested the secretary, Mr. C. Reuter, to help him to…