Klauber v. Biggerstaff
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. In an action against one Slater and one Ball, plaintiffs, on the 7th of December, 1878, garnished the State Bank of Madison, Wis., as being indebted to Slater or having in its possession personal property belonging to him.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Dane County. In an action against one Slater and one Ball, plaintiffs, on the 7th of December, 1878, garnished the State Bank of Madison, Wis., as being indebted to Slater or having in its possession personal property belonging to him. The garnishee denied that it was liable, unless it were by reason of having issued to Slater a certificate of deposit as follows: “ $1000, Madison, Wis., Nov. 19, 1878. D. S. Slater, Esq., has deposited in the State Bank one thousand dollars, payable to himself in currency on the return of this certificate. [Signed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtRyan, C. J.
The controlling question in this case is, whether *555the certificate of deposit stated in the proceedings is negotiable.
“ A promissory note may be defined to be a written engagement by one person to pay another person therein named, absolutely and unconditionally, a certain sum of money at a time specified therein.” Story on Prom. Notes, § 1. The ordinary form of a certificate of deposit of money falls precisely within the definition, and it seems strange that there ever was a doubt that it was in law a negotiable promissory note. O'Neill v. Bradford, 1 Pin., 890, and cases there cited. Such…
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