Springhill Bank & Trust Co. v. Gish

FRED W. JONES, Jr, Judge.

Plaintiff bank sued the defendant merchant for recovery of the amounts of two checks, allegedly credited to defendant’s store account, on which payment was stopped by the maker. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals. We affirm.

According to the record, for some eight years the defendant Gish operated a retail business under the name of “Gish’s General Store” in the rural community of Sarepta. In May 1980 Gish agreed to sell his store business to Kenneth Smith and Barry Gill. Consideration for the transfer was to be the construction by Smith and Gill…