West Monroe State Bank v. Calvert

Plaintiff sues to recover of the defendant the sum of $1,400, representing the amount of a loss plaintiff sustained in handling a piece of paper in the form of a cashier’s cheek in the sum of $2,500, for a party known in West Monroe as Walter K. Johnson, who was brought to the bank and introduced to the cashier by the defendant.

Plaintiff’s allegations are substantially as follows: That on June 18, 1921, defendant brought a party into the bank, whom he introduced as Walter K. Johnson, and advised plaintiff’s cashier that Johnson had an exchange which he, defendant, wanted the bank to handle,…