Bank of Montreal v. White

delivered tlie opinion of the court.

There can be no pretence in this case that the note in suit was ever actually delivered to the bank as collateral security for past or future indebtedness. In the letter transmitting it, the bank manager was asked to discount it and place the proceeds to the credit of the manufacturing company. ' In that event the “ overdraft kindly allowed on Friday ” was to be charged against the credit, but it is nowhere, even in the remotest degree, intimated that if the discount was declined the note might he kept as collateral. The charge asked and refused was,…