Bank of Commerce v. Miller
Appellate Court of Illinois
Trespass on tile Case.—Damages for negligence of bank in collecting a draft. Appeal from the Circuit Court of book County; the Hoii. Richard W. Clifford, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1901. Appellee, in 1895, resided at Monee, Illinois, about thirty-four miles from Chicago, where he conducted for some years prior thereto, a general store and grain elevator business.
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Trespass on tile Case.—Damages for negligence of bank in collecting a draft. Appeal from the Circuit Court of book County; the Hoii. Richard W. Clifford, Judge presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1901. Appellee, in 1895, resided at Monee, Illinois, about thirty-four miles from Chicago, where he conducted for some years prior thereto, a general store and grain elevator business. During all this time he had been doing business with Timberlake & Company, and their predecessors, commission merchants, with offices at 501 Royal Insurance Building, in Chicago, selling…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Burke
The draft involved in this case was received from George S. Miller, appellee, of Monee, Illinois, by the Bank of Commerce of Chicago, appellant, through the mail at 2:30 o’clock in the afternoon of Friday, July the fifth, 1895. It was made payable to appellant, signed by appellee, and drawn on Timberlake & Company, a commission firm of Chicago. The bank did not present the draft to the drawee until the next day at about eleven o’clock and then received therefor an uncertified check drawn upon the National Bank of the Fepublic to the order of the bank and signed by Timberlake & Company.
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