Legal Opinion

Sokoloff v. Weisberg

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County

Decided July 21, 1923No. 2924Published

1Opinion of the Court

Shoemaker, P. J.,

For the reasons stated in the charge to the jury, these motions are refused.

Where a check has been certified by a bank and is charged against the drawer’s account, it becomes a debt of the bank and the drawer loses all control of it and has no power to stop payment of it as against a holder in due *364course: Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank v. Elizabethtown Bank, 30 Pa. Superior Ct. 271.

If the check is not delivered to the payee and is returned to the bank, the obligation of the bank ceases, and the drawer’s account is credited with the amount.

In the case at bar, a certified check…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Farmers' & Merchants' National Bank v. Elizabethtown National BankSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1906

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