New York Hotel Statler Co. v. Girard National Bank

Opinion by

Gawthrop, J.,

Plaintiff, a corporation operating a hotel in New York City, brought this action in assumpsit against defendant, a bank in Philadelphia, to recover the amounts due on nine checks drawn by one Wray to plaintiff’s order upon the Citizens Bank of Sanders-ville, Georgia, and deposited by it in the Hudson Trust Company in New York for collection. The Hudson Trust Company transmitted the cheeks to the Empire Trust Company in New York City, which in turn transmitted them to defendant at Philadelphia. Defendant transmitted the checks directly to the hank on which they were…