Whitney Cent. Trust & Savings Bank v. Norton

One P. O. Norton, alias J. A. Milligan, transiently in this city, deposited with the plaintiff bank, receiving credit therefor, an exchange for $3,000, payable to his own order, purporting to be signed by J. D. Henglebrook, cashier of the Newport National Bank of Newport, Ky., and drawn on the Chatham & Phoenix Bank of New York. Norton was allowed to draw in cash against the deposit the sum of $500. On the same day, and presumably immediately following the above transaction, Norton put over a similar act, no less criminal but slightly less advantageous to him, on the Marine Bank & Trust Co.

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