Mercantile Savings Bank v. Appler

This case involves the right of a savings hank to issue to one joint depositor a new pass book on his representation that the original book had been lost, and to subsequently pay to him the money in the joint account, when, as a matter of fact, the original pass book had all along been in the possession of the other joint owner, who later presented it and demanded payment of the deposit.

The practically undisputed facts show that in June, 1920, Daisy Appier, the plaintiff below and the appellee here, went with her husband, Samuel Q. Appier, to the Mercantile Savings Bank of Baltimore City, the…