Heineman v. Old National Bank
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe county court of Winnebago county; Fred BegliNgeu, Judge. Action to recover tbe value of a bank deposit of $301. Defendant admitted that plaintiffs bad made a deposit with it in its savings department, but alleged full payment of tbe amount deposited with interest. It appears that plaintiffs, wbo were busband and wife and of advanced age, on May 20, 1911, made a savings deposit of $300 with defendant, payable to either one.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe county court of Winnebago county; Fred BegliNgeu, Judge. Action to recover tbe value of a bank deposit of $301. Defendant admitted that plaintiffs bad made a deposit with it in its savings department, but alleged full payment of tbe amount deposited with interest. It appears that plaintiffs, wbo were busband and wife and of advanced age, on May 20, 1911, made a savings deposit of $300 with defendant, payable to either one. On July 31st one John Heineman, tbeir grandson, aged nineteen, wbo lived with them, secured possession of tbe bank book without tbeir…
1Opinion of the CourtViNJE, J.
On July 31st John Heineman, the grandson of plaintiffs, aged nineteen, came to the bank with the savings bank book and asked to withdraw the deposit. He was told that a receipt for the money signed by the plaintiffs, or one of them, must be delivered to the bank before the deposit would be paid, and was given a blank receipt for execution. Later in the day he returned with it bearing the signature of Monica Heineman. The bank then asked that the genuineness of the signature to the receipt be vouched for by some one known to its officers, and one E. B. Martin certified that it was genuine,…
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