South Carolina Nat. Bank of Charleston v. McCandless

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in an action at law instituted in the court below by the receiver of the First National Bank of St. George, S. C., against the South Carolina National Bank of Charleston, S. C., to recover a deposit of $12,852.46. The Charleston bank admitted liability for the sum of $587.50, and paid same without prejudice. It claimed the right to set off against the deposit two cheeks of the St. George bank aggregating $1,772.59 which it had paid before notice of insolvency; and this right was conceded by the receiver upon the trial. As to the remaining $10,492.37, it…