Alter v. Security Building & Loan Co.

This case was appealed on questions of law and fact from the Common Pleas Court of Defiance county, Ohio, where it originated. It was submitted here on questions of law only.

The facts can well be stated with conciseness. At the time of the transactions in issue defendant was and ever since has been a building and loan association organized and existing under the laws of the state of Ohio, with its office and principal place of business at Defiance therein.

It issued a passbook to Mr. and Mrs. Diehl, on each page of which excepting a printed one hereinafter mentioned, were four columns, the…