Jensen v. Laurel Meat Co.

delivered the opinion of the .court.

• On December 12, 1922, Otto Jensen, of Edgar, Montana, sold and delivered to the Laurel Meat Company of Laurel merchandise of the value of $226.59, and on the same day, after banking hours, received the meat company’s check for the amount, drawn on the Citizens’ National Bank of Laurel. On the morning of the 13th Jensen indorsed the check in blank and deposited it with the Edgar State Bank, which forwarded It in the usual course of business through the Yellowstone-Merchants’ National Bank of Billings and the Federal Reserve Branch Bank of Helena to the…