Espy v. Bank of Cincinnati
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio; the case being thus: Stall & Meyer were grocers of'Cincinnati, and kept a deposit account in the Eirst National Bank there. Espy, Heidelbach & Co., were brokers in the same city, dealing in government bonds and gold. On the 26th of April, 1870, a well-looking stranger entered the office of these last, and proposed to purchase of them certain bonds and a specified quantity of gold.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio; the case being thus: Stall & Meyer were grocers of'Cincinnati, and kept a deposit account in the Eirst National Bank there. Espy, Heidelbach & Co., were brokers in the same city, dealing in government bonds and gold. On the 26th of April, 1870, a well-looking stranger entered the office of these last, and proposed to purchase of them certain bonds and a specified quantity of gold. They agreed to sell both to him at a price named, $3920. He then told them that he would go to Stall & Meyer, with whom he represented that he had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
Stall & Meyer, customers and depositors with the First National Bank of Cincinnati; made their check on that bank for the sum of $26.50-, payable to the order of Mrs. E. Hart, and delivered it to a stranger to all the parties to the transaction, out of which this controversy arose. This mail erased the name of the - payee and the amount for which it was given and inserted the name of Espy, Heidelbach & Co., bankers and brokers, and also the sum of $3920, and passed it to Espy, Heidelbach & Co., in payment of bonds and gold which he purchased from them. The cheek was paid by the bauk through…
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