Haller v. Workingmen's Co-operative Bank

This is an action of contract to recover the amount of a check drawn by the defendant to the order of John H. Deane and indorsed by him in blank. The plaintiff at the trial to the court sitting without a jury offered the check in' evidence and rested. The case had been referred *38to an auditor whose findings of fact were to be conclusive. It appears from his report, after certain inferences made by the auditor which were really findings of fact within his province had been struck out on the plaintiff’s motion, that on February 17, 1926, Deane with the check in his possession left his home in…