Citizens National Bk. Greencastle v. Speck

Opinion by

Parker, J.,. The Citizens National Bank of Greencastle, Pennsylvania, brought this action in assumpsit against Mary I. Speck, to recover a balance alleged to be due upon a promissory note for $11,000. In arriving at the balance sued for, the plaintiff appropriated toward the payment of the note the amount of a savings account which the defendant had in the plaintiff bank. The defense was that Miss Speck had signed a note in blank for the purpose of renewing a smaller obligation which she claimed the bank held against her, and that the cashier, Emmert Sheely, had fraudulently and…