State Bank of Troy v. Bank of Capitol

By the Court.*—Hogeboom, J.

This action is brought by' the plaintiff against the defendant, to recover damages for defendant’s negligence in the protest of a draft sent to it for collection by the plaintiff.

The defendant was the plaintiff’s collecting agent at Albany, where the draft was payable. It was drawn by Oramel Brewster on Arland Carroll, and payable to the order of W. C. Watson, and indorsed by him, by John Roth & Co., to David Dater, who was the owner thereof, and who indorsed and delivered it to the plaintiff for collection; and the plaintiff, through its cashier, thereupon indorsed…