Watson v. First State Bank of Dallas

Plaintiff in error, V. 5. Watson, as next friend for Fredrick Chester Selby, Jr., a minor, brought this suit against defendant in error, First State Bank of Dallas, to recover $2,108.35, with interest from January 23, 1918.

Two thousand dollars of this money had been deposited in the savings department of the bank by Mrs. Stevie Selby, mother of the minor, in her own name, on March 21, 1917, and the passbook therefor pledged in writing to the bank as collateral seeuriiy for a note of even date, payable to the bank and signed by W. H. Elsberry and said Mrs. Stevie Selby for the sum of $2,500.…