Church v. National Newark & Essex Banking Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Minturn, J.

Upon the following state of facts a judgment of nonsuit ivas directed at the Circuit. Plaintiffs, a firm of eminent lawyers in the city of Newark, were depositing customers of the defendant company in the same city.

Prior to November 1st, 1919, a man bearing all the external evidences of a clergyman, called at the plaintiffs’ offices and placed with them a claim for collection, amounting to $4,300. Tn due time an apparently certified, check drawn by the Keystone Construction Company of Philadelphia upon the Philadelphia National Bank, payable…