First National Bank of Lacon v. Bauer Poultry Corp.

This is an appeal by the defendant-appellant Bauer Poultry Corporation, from a judgment rendered by the circuit court of Marshall county, Illinois, in the amount of $3,002.85 and costs. The judgment was rendered in a case brought by the plaintiff bank, on a check drawn by the defendant, Bauer Poultry Corporation of Chicago, Illinois, payable to Frank Grampp & Son of Princeton, Illinois. The check was thereafter endorsed by Frank Grampp & Son and cashed at the plaintiff’s bank. The defendant stopped payment on the check before it was presented to the drawee bank for payment. The principal…