Merle v. National City Bank

This is an action of trover in which the defendant bank was found guilty of converting a draft made upon' it by Security National Bank of the City of Dallas, Texas, to the order of Mrs. Wm. F. Merle. The declaration was in the usual common-law form, to which defendant pleaded the general issue.

Plaintiff’s evidence was to the effect that the draft was paid by defendant, that the indorsement thereon in the name of the payee was not made by plaintiff, and that the draft produced in court was borrowed from the bank in Dallas for that purpose. Defendant’s motion for a directed verdict having been…