State Ex Rel. Robertson v. Johnson County Bank

The petition of H. B. McQueen was filed in this cause to recover from the receiver of the Johnson County Bank $613.80, the amount of two checks, one drawhi by the Southern Railway Company for $113.80, payable in Washington, D. C., and the other drawn by Grindstaft, for $500, payable in Elizabethton, Tenn., and delivered by McQueen to said bank in payment for a draft of $620, a few hours béfore it closed its doors, the insolvency of the bank being known to its officers but not to McQueen, payment of which draft was refused by the correspondent bank. Petitioner contends that he is a preferred…