Fine v. Harney County National Bank

The defendants assign as error the rulings of the court below denying their motions for directed verdicts and for judgments notwithstanding the verdicts. We will direct our attention to these assignments first as they apply to the Bank.

There is evidence of the following facts: In February, 1941, Edward N. Brown was the vice president and assistant cashier of the Harney County National Bank. The plaintiffs J. B. Fine and Ethel Fine are husband and wife, and for a number of years had maintained a joint commercial account with the Bank in which they carried substantial balances. In 1941 J. B.…