St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Co. v. Johnston
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. For more than five years prior to the 6th day of May, 188J, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company had an account with the Marine National Bank of the city of New York.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. For more than five years prior to the 6th day of May, 188J, the St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company had an account with the Marine National Bank of the city of New York. On the 5th day of May of that year it drew a sight draft on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad Conn pany at Boston, Massachusetts, payable to the order of the Marine Bank, for the sum of $17,835, an amount due from the latter company, and sent the same to the Marine Bank with a deposit ticket filled üp by the assistant…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
This was not the deposit of a check on the Marine Bank itself. In such a case it was held in Oddie v. National City Bank, 45 N. Y. 735, that the check, if received and credited, could not be charged back for want of funds. Nor was it a check on another, bank, as to which Church, C. J., remarks, a different principle would be applied, as the presumption of agency 'might arise. It was a sight draft drawn by the San Francisco Company on .its debtor in Boston, and collected through the Marine Bank’s correspondent at that place. Neither it, nor the money collected upon it, passed into the hands of…
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