First Nat. Bank v. Devenish

Reed, C.

Appellant is a national bank doing business in the city of Denver. In tbe year 1883 appellee was a private banker doing business at Tin Cup, in the county of Gunnison. Appellant, in the regular course of business, received checks amounting to $312, drawn by one O. F. Caldwell upon the bank of appellee, which were forwarded to its correspondent, one Freeman, at Tin Cup, for collection, and presented on the afternoon of December 27, 1883, at the bank of Devenish & Co., and paid by draft drawn upon the German National Bank of Denver, of which the following is a copy: “$312. Cochran &…