Pennsylvania Co. v. Philadelphia Electric Co.

Opinion by

Me. Justice Steen,

This is an action of assumpsit to recover the sum of $48,019.28, with interest, alleged to have been delivered in cash by plaintiff bank to defendant and not repaid, the money being provided for the payment of wages due defendant’s employes at its branch office at 23d and Market Streets, Philadelphia. It is defendant’s contention that it never received the money. The controversy was submitted to a jury which found for plaintiff in the amount claimed. The facts giving rise to the litigation are, happily, quite unusual.

Starting in the spring of 1933, the bank, in…