Cronemeyer v. First National Bank of Northeast

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This appeal is from a summary judgment. The undisputed facts are that Mrs. Crone-meyer, the appellant here, drew two checks in the amounts of $574 and $287 on a District of Columbia bank payable to Glenn Ross. Ross took the $574 check to appellee, a Maryland bank, where he had a checking account, endorsed the check in blank, and received therefor $100 in cash and a credit to his account for the remaining $474. Five days later Ross followed exactly the same procedure with the $287 check. The Maryland bank forwarded these checks for collection through regular clearing house…