Farmers & Merchants Bank v. Germania Life Insurance

Defendant appealed. This action was brought to recover $1,250, the amount of a check alleged to have been drawn by Lula Parham, cashier of the defendant, on the Mercantile Bank of Memphis, Tenn., to the order of R. B. Hall, manager of the defendant, and endorsed by him for value to the plaintiff, and also the protest fee, $2.50, making, in all, $1,252.50. The check was presented to the bank on which it had been drawn and payment refused, whereupon it was protested for nonpayment. The defendant denied its liability upon the ground that Lula Parham had no authority to draw the check, and that…