Columbia Mill Co. v. National Bank of Commerce
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the National Bank of Commerce, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Ilicks, J., made August 10,' 1892, denying its application for a new trial. The plaintiff, the Columbia Mill Company, was in 1890, engaged in the manufacture and sale of flour at Minneapolis, and had for six years kept its bank account with defendant. It averaged over $100,-000 a month.
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Appeal by defendant, the National Bank of Commerce, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Ilicks, J., made August 10,' 1892, denying its application for a new trial. The plaintiff, the Columbia Mill Company, was in 1890, engaged in the manufacture and sale of flour at Minneapolis, and had for six years kept its bank account with defendant. It averaged over $100,-000 a month. In payment of its bills for flour, its customers sent to it checks and drafts payable to its order. Leo Heilpern was its bookkeeper and had charge of the petty cash received at the office for local sales…
1Opinion of the Court
Gileillan, G. J.
The plaintiff was a corporation in the business, at Minneapolis, of manufacturing and selling flour, and the defendant was a bank at that place.
The action is for the conversion of nineteen checks drawn by different persons or firms upon different banks or concerns, each payable to the order of, and the property of, the plaintiff. The allegations of the complaint are that one Leo Heilpern feloniously abstracted and purloined the checks from plaintiff, wrongfully and without authority impressed on the back of each, with a rubber stamp, the words “Columbia Mill Co.,” and wrote…
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