Blair v. Riley, Exr.

These proceedings in error are prosecuted by the plaintiff in error E. H. Blair, and by defendants in error Fairall and Haas, from judgments of the common pleas court. A jury was waived and the causes submitted to the trial judge. We refer to the parties as- they appeared below.

The plaintiffs were holders of safety deposit boxes in the People’s Bank of Frazeysburg, Ohio, of which institution J. L. Browning was, at the time the causes of action arose, and for many years prior thereto, cashier. The parties, without exception, base their causes of action upon contract. The proof, in the main,…