California Pacific Title & Trust Co. v. Crocker First National Bank

Plaintiff brought this action to recover the sum of $12,559.25, alleged to have been the balance due to plaintiff as a depositor in the defendant bank. The cause was tried by the court sitting without a jury and from a judgment in favor of plaintiff defendant appeals.

The defendant bank came into being as the result of a consolidation and the name of the plaintiff corporation was changed during the time referred to herein but neither the consolidation nor the change of name is material here, so we may simply refer to the institutions involved as plaintiff and defendant. In 1922, plaintiff…