First State Bank v. Citizens State Bank

DONOHOE, Chief Judge.

The plaintiff, an Iowa banking corporation, brought this action to recover $11,650, the amount of a customer’s draft which was allegedly accepted for payment by the defendant, a Nebraska banking corporation. This court has jurisdiction of the case because there is diversity of citizenship and the amount involved in the controversy exceeds three thousand dollars. 28 U.S.C.A. § 1332. The draft in question was drawn on the account of a depositor in the defendant bank, one Carl E. Wiese, who is seeking to intervene in this action. The defendant bank, in its answer, has…