Mullinax v. American Trust & Banking Co.

Plaintiff filed this suit to recover $1700 on the ground that the defendant wrongfully failed to stop payment, as directed, on a check for said amount drawn on plaintiff’s account at the defendant’s Rossville Branch. There was a jury trial and the plaintiff recovered. The judgment of the trial court was affirmed by the Court of Appeals. The case is here on petition for certiorari.

*222This lawsnit arose out of the sale of a used car sold by Harry Brown to plaintiff, Charles Mullinax. Mullinax was a used-car dealer and used his home on the Lee Highway, near Cleveland, as his place of business. On…