Paine v. Sheridan Trust & Savings Bank

In an action in assumpsit, commenced in the circuit court on June 25,1927, to recover the proceeds of plaintiffs’ check for $3,303.85, dated May 11,1927, made payable to defendant’s order, and received by it in payment of a personal indebtedness of plaintiffs’ defaulting cashier, there was a trial without a jury, resulting in the court entering a finding in defendant’s favor. On April 15, 1929, judgment was entered on the finding against plaintiffs for costs, and subsequently they sued out the present writ of error.

Plaintiffs, copartners as Paine, Webber & Co., were engaged in a stock…