Howell v. Bank of Snyder

About February 21, 1907, Eli Howell and Chas. O. McCue, partners operating as Howell & McCue in the town of Snyder, Okl., deposited with the Bank of Snyder, appellee herein, a check of E. A. Patterson for $1,000 as a special deposit. Attached to the check was an agreement, in substance, that if Howell & McCue should within 30 days, or as soon thereafter as possible, obtain and deliver to the bank the release of a certain lien named in the agreement, the bank should transmit the release to Patterson, and turn over the $1,000 to Howell & McCue. The bank knew the contents of the agreement; its…