People Ex Rel. Barrett v. Union Bank & Trust Co.

This is an appeal from a decree entered by the three judges of the circuit court of Stephenson county sitting en banc. The decree found, among other things, that section 13 of “An act defining the relations between banks and their depositors with respect to the deposit and collection of checks and other instruments payable in money,” (for convenience called the Bank Collection Code,) approved July 8, 1931, (98 S. H. A. 219; Ill. State Bar Stat. 1935, chap. 16a, par. 37, p. 167;) was unconstitutional. So far as material here it provides:

“1. When the drawee or payor, or any other agent…