Gladstone Exchange Bank v. Keating

I think the judgment in this case should be reversed.

It appears that the two defendants joined in a letter to the plaintiff, instructing it to pay no checks on the part of defendants unless they were countersigned by Robert C. Sheehan, son of the defendant Sheehan, and the bookkeeper of the firm. Notwithstanding this direction, the plaintiff paid 22 checks, for the amount'of which defendants deny liability. There was no showing by the plaintiff that the defendants derived any benefit from the moneys received upon these checks. It rests its claim of liability upon the contract implied from'…