Missouri Building & Loan Ass'n v. National Liberty Insurance

This is an action by the payee against the drawer of a check upon which payment was. stopped. A jury, was waived and the cause tried-before the' court alone, resulting in the entry of a judgment for plaintiff, the payee, and against defendant, the drawer, in the aggregate sum of $2,968.70. The latter’s appeal to this court has followed in the usual course.

So far as the material facts are concerned, it appears that one Dorson was the owner of certain, premises at 4363 Delmar boulevard, in the city of St. Louis, against which there was an outstanding indebtedness of $5,118.06 secured by a first…