Weck v. First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.

O’Donnell, J.,

This is a trespass action to recover the proceeds of a certified check. Plaintiff and her husband had a checking account (husband-wife account, either to draw thereon) in defendant bank. On December 18, 1959, plaintiff, then separated from her husband (divorced a year later,) ob*558tained a certified check in the amount of $1,440 from defendant’s branch located in plaintiff’s apartment building. The $1,440 represented $1,000 drawn upon the checking account and $440 drawn upon a savings account also in the name of plaintiff and her husband.

Shortly after the certification of this…