First National Bank v. Whitaker

Mr. Presiding Judge Harvey

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

This suit was brought by David Whitaker, as plaintiff, against the First National Bank in Houston, as defendant, to recover damages in the sum of $2550.00, with legal interest, alleged to have been sustained by Whitaker on account of, and as a proximate result of, the negligence of the bank in delivering to one F. N. Pattee a certain cashier’s check for $2550.00, and in paying the amount of said check to Pattee. The case came on for trial. A jury was impaneled, ' but after all the testimony had been…