Robinson & Co. v. Bank of Pikeville

OPINION of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

On the 3d day of January, 1891, J. B. Jones presented to the appellee Bank of Pikeville a draft for $1,960, drawn by the Moline Bank of Illinois, to the order of the Deer Mansur Company, and endorsed to *539tbe Hickman Lumber Company. It bore tbe date of December 11, 1890. Tbe bank discounted tbe draft, paid Jones $300 in cash, and placed tbe remainder of tbe draft to bis credit on its books, giving bim a pass book and check book. On tbe following day, Jones witb tbe $300 in money and tbe pass book and check book, went to Hindman, in Knott County,…