Cooper v. Peoples Trust & Savings Bank

Mr. Presiding Justice Taylor

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit by the plaintiff in error, J. C. Cooper, against the defendant for the amount of a check drawn by the plaintiff on the defendant bank- and paid by the defendant on an alleged forged indorsement. The plaintiff’s statement of claim sets forth elaborately what purports to be a history of the whole transaction and the affidavit of merits denies most of the important allegations of the statement of claim. The cause was tried before the court without a jury and at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence and upon motion by…