First National Bank v. Gish's Assignees
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1872, No. 59. This was an action of assumpsit commenced May 14th 1870, by W. A. Wilson and John C. Gingrich, assignees in bankruptcy of John B. Gish, against The First National Bank of Mount Joy, to recover the sum of $1260, which was on deposit with defendant to the credit of John B. Gish, when he became bankrupt.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster county: Of May Term 1872, No. 59. This was an action of assumpsit commenced May 14th 1870, by W. A. Wilson and John C. Gingrich, assignees in bankruptcy of John B. Gish, against The First National Bank of Mount Joy, to recover the sum of $1260, which was on deposit with defendant to the credit of John B. Gish, when he became bankrupt. The facts were undisputed and are these :— Shortly before March 28d 1869, John B. Gish -wrote to Andrew Gerber, the defendant’s cashier, inquiring whether the bank would discount for him a note for $6000, with the…
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Read, J.
— John B. Gish, a grain dealer, doing business at Elizabethtown, Lancaster county, addressed a letter to Andrew Gerber, cashier of the First National Bank of Mount Joy, asking for a discount of anote of six thousand dollars, with John S. Gish, his father, as endorser. The bank agreed to discount the paper offered, if John B. Gish would leave in bank one thousand dollars of it, to be appropriated to the reduction or payment of the note at maturity. The letter of the cashier communicating this to John B. Gish was shown to John S. Gish, and he…
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