Kaszab v. Metropolitan State Bank

Plaintiff, Joseph Kaszab, brought his action -against the Metropolitan State Bank, charging the defendant with having converted to its own use a number of checks of the value of $23,783.26 and with failure to pay plaintiff on demand for said checks to the damage of the plaintiff in the sum of $30,000. To this action the defendant filed two special pleas.

The first plea sets out and alleges that on February 11, 1927, and prior to the commencement of the suit at bar, plaintiff began and instituted a certain action at law in assumpsit in the circuit court of Cook county, in which action the said…