Bank of Shaw v. Ransom
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Boliver county. How. W. A. Alcorn, Jr. Judge. Suit by W. A. Ransom against the Bank of Sbaw. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Boliver county. How. W. A. Alcorn, Jr. Judge. Suit by W. A. Ransom against the Bank of Sbaw. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. The question presented by this record briefly stated is, if a bank receives for collection a check drawn against another bank in the same town during the afternoon and on that afternoon presents the check for payment and payment is refused whereupon the collecting bank protests the check on the following day upon which day the hank against which the check is drawn…
1Opinion of the CourtCook, P. J.
The appellant is a hanking corporation, and was doing, a regular hanking business at Shaw. In the same town was another bank called the State Bank of Shaw. Appellee owned a plantation four miles south of Shaw, which he had leased to one T. B. Scott. On December 33, 1911, T. B. Scott was indebted to ap-pellee in the sum of two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars, and, having at that time more than that amount on deposit in the State Bank of Shaw, drew his check for that amount payable to appellee, and mailed same to appellee at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Ap-pellee received the check in due course…
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