Dennis v. Northwestern National Bank

Nelson, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from order of trial court denying her alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial.

The question involved is whether currency, contained within an unmarked envelope, found by an attendant employee of a bank, in area restricted and set apart as the bank’s safety deposit box vault for the use of its customers upon payment of a rental fee, is as a matter of law, under the circumstances, properly held by the bank as custodian for the true owner and entitled to be so held as against the claim of the employee-finder.

At the trial below…