Combs v. Peoples Bank

Stanley, Commissioner,

Affirming judgment for defendant bank, and reversing judgment for defendant Berryman.

This is a suit by the administrator and nine children of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Combs to recover for the estate $2,500 from another daughter, Mrs. Sadie Berry-man, and the Peoples Bank of Hazard. It was charged that the deceased had deposited with and entrusted the defendants with the money. The bank entered a general traverse but answered as garnishee that it had on deposit $2,097.50, to the credit of Mrs. Berryman. She pleaded affirmatively that her mother had had a check for' $2,500…