Doucette v. Old National Bank & Union Trust Co.

Plaintiff's separate funds, which should have been credited to the joint account of the plaintiff and her husband with the defendant bank, were placed in the husband’s individual account with that bank. On two causes of action, the plaintiff sought to recover from the defendant bank for the loss she claimed she sustained by her husband’s withdrawal of those funds from his individual account.

For her first cause of action plaintiff alleged that the defendant acquiesced in the fraud of the husband in placing the funds in the husband’s individual account; that the bank thereby treated that…