Flohr v. Walker

Plaintiff, A. B. Walker, was granted a judgment in district court, holding that he was entitled to have certificates of deposit in the amount of some $44,000, formerly in the custody of defendant, Henry Flohr, Jr., who was decreed to have no interest in the certificates — neither party to cash, liquidate, or in any manner change them until further order of the court. Defendant, who had counterclaimed, appealed, requesting both a reversal of the judgment and the affirmative relief he had sought. Certain facts are not disputed.

Walker, at the time of the trial eighty-eight years of age, a former…