Murdock v. Citizens' Bank

The plaintiffs have sued the defendant for the sum of $2300, payable in coin, as the balance due them on deposit on the sixteenth September, 1861, when the bank suspended specie payment, and which sum, they allege, the defendant stipulated to keep as a special deposit, not to be drawn out until the end of the war. The defendant pleads the general issue, admits that plaintiffs had an account with it, which was closed on the tenth February, 1863, by the bank’s taking in part payment of plaintiffs’ indebtedness to it the *114sum of $2006 94, the balance then on deposit, and leaving the plaintiffs,…