Showers v. Merchants National Bank

Opinion by

Me. Justice Schaeeee,

Plaintiff, a depositor in defendant bank, brought suit against it to recover the amount represented by four checks which he had drawn on it in payment for stock in a rubber company, claiming that the bank had paid the checks on forged endorsements and that he had never received the certificates of stock. The verdict was in plaintiff’s favor, the court entered judgment for defendant and from this action plaintiff appeals.

A single proposition controls the case. When plaintiff received his settled bank book from defendant with the checks in question returned to him…