Vaughn v. Bank Missouri
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. POINTS. 1. The words “Surveyor General,” to the name of Silas Reed, in his account with the Bank, and him used in drawing checks, were mere “descriptio person®,” and could not operate to give any official •character to the money to his credit under that style in the Bank. (7 Mo. Rep., p. 351, 298; 9th Mo.
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ERROR to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. POINTS. 1. The words “Surveyor General,” to the name of Silas Reed, in his account with the Bank, and him used in drawing checks, were mere “descriptio person®,” and could not operate to give any official •character to the money to his credit under that style in the Bank. (7 Mo. Rep., p. 351, 298; 9th Mo. Rep., p. 169.) 2. The evidence shows that when the Bank was garnisheed, the Bank owed Silas Reed $1,644 72. 1. The Bank by her counsel submits, that this cause having been submitted to the court sitting as a jury, and no instructions having been…
1Opinion of the CourtMcBride, J.
Vaughn being an execution creditor of Silas Reed, garnisheed the Bank of the State of Missouri, returnable to the September Term, 1843. of the Court of Common Pleas for St. Louis county. On the 11 th day of December, 1843, allegations and interrogatories were filed against the Bank, which were responded to by the Bank on the 3rd of February, 1844. The plaintiff then prayed judgment upon part of the answer and traversed the remainder. Afterwards, on motion, the court discharged the Bank from that part of tiie answer upon which judgment had been prayed, when the Bank^filed an amended answer by…
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