Peterson v. Citizens State Bank

E. J. Kreumpel, who commenced this suit against defendant, died prior to the trial and P. H. Peterson, administrator of his estate, was substituted as plaintiff.

The controlling question before us is whether the delivery of a check by plaintiff’s intestate, E. J. Kreumpel, at defendant bank to the bank’s assistant cashier constituted, as claimed by the plaintiff, a transaction with the bank, or as claimed by the bank, was a personal transaction between Kreumpel and the cashier. Plaintiff’s evidence is substantially as follows:

Plaintiff’s intestate was a farmer and dealer in livestock who…