Legal Opinion

Brown v. Yukon National Bank

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided March 3, 1919PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT OE FACTS. Walter Brown and W. T. Oglesby, a partnership under the firm name of Brown & Oglesby Cash Peed Company, filed a suit, by attachment in the circuit court against Yukon Mill & Grain Company, a non-resident corporation, for a balance alleged to he due on a contract of $210. The basis of the suit is that the plaintiffs bought from the defendant 860 barrels of flour -at an agreed price…

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Appeal from Pulaski Circuit Court, Third Division; G. W. Hendricks, Judge; STATEMENT OE FACTS. Walter Brown and W. T. Oglesby, a partnership under the firm name of Brown & Oglesby Cash Peed Company, filed a suit, by attachment in the circuit court against Yukon Mill & Grain Company, a non-resident corporation, for a balance alleged to he due on a contract of $210. The basis of the suit is that the plaintiffs bought from the defendant 860 barrels of flour -at an agreed price to he shipped as directed. Subsequently a local representative of the defendant sold to a firm of merchants at Hot…

1Opinion of the Court

HABT, J.,

(after stating the facts). The court was right in holding that the money garnished in the hands of the Peoples Savings Bank belonged to the intervener, the Yukon National Bank, and in this respect the case is ruled by Cox Wholesale Grocery Co. v. The National Bank of Pittsburg, Kansas, 107 Ark. 601. In that case it was held that where a bank receives upon deposit a draft indorsed without restriction and gives credit for it to the depositor as cash in a checking account, the bank becomes the absolute owner of the draft so deposited. The effect of crediting the proceeds is simply to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. American Soda Fountain Co. v. BattleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
  2. Cox Wholesale Grocery Co. v. National BankSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1913
  3. Sanders v. W. B. Worthen Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1916
  4. Southern Sand & Material Co. v. People's Savings Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1911

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Acme Hay & Mill Feed Co. v. Metropolitan National BankSupreme Court of Iowa · 1924
  2. Ætna Casualty & Surety Co. v. HensleeSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1924
  3. Farmers' State Bank v. First State BankSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
  4. Merchants' Bank v. Pine Bluff Produce & Provision Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1921
  5. Russell v. Barnhart Mercantile Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1921

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