Merchants National Bank v. Carhart
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit. Before Judge MacDonell. City court of Savannah. February term, 1894.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
The case now before us is quite similar to that of the Merchants National Bank of Savannah v. Guilmartin (88 Ga. 797, s. c. 93 Ga. 503), in which this court dealt at length with the duties and liabilities incurred by a bank in accepting from one of its customers a special deposit under circumstances which, in law, would create a gratuitous bailment. In view of the elaborate discussion of the subject then entered into, it will not be necessary in this opinion to again cite the numerous authorities in support of the rule that it is incumbent upon a bank, in order to vindicate…
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- Merchants National Bank v. GuilmartinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892
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