Paul v. Farmers & Merchants State Bank

Defendants appeal from an order denying their motion for a new trial.

The action is brought to recover $163.58, being the amount of a draft purchased by plaintiff from the defendant bank on September 26, 1930, on which payment had been refused by the bank upon which the draft was drawn. On September 26, 1930, the plaintiff came to the defendant bank and presented to the assistant cashier certain checks from a number of concerns, payable to plaintiff, amounting in all to $172 and some cents. He informed the cashier that he wanted to send a remittance or draft to the Federal Land Bank at St.…