Texas Bank & Trust Co. of Sweetwater v. Withers

HICKMAN, Chief Justice.

R. E. Withers was indebted to G. O. Jones on a vendor’s lien note executed by one O’Keefe for the principal sum of $500. Ap-pellee, B. W. Withers, the father of R. E. Withers, drew his check in favor of G. C. Jones, or order, for $500 upon the appellant bank. This notation was on the face of the check: “For O’Keefe note and transfer.” The check was delivered to R. E. Writhers, who was to attend to the procuring of the transfer of the vendor’s lien note from Jones to appellee. R. E. Withers understood that the note was payable at the First National Bank of Sweetwater,…