Swanton Savings Bank & Trust Co. v. Shapiro

This is a bill of interpleader. The plaintiff is a banking institution doing business at Swanton. On April 13, 1929, Israel Shapiro who was then doing business in St. Albans under the name of the Hub Department Store drew a check on the plaintiff for two hundred dollars, payable to the order of Thomas K. Kelly, and delivered it to one Lund. Two days later Lund procured the bank to certify this check. April 18, Shapiro, as the Hub Department Store, brought an action of contract returnable to the Franklin County court against the T. K. Kelly Sales System of Minneapolis in the state of Minnesota…