Green v. Odd Fellows' Savings & Commercial Bank
Green v. Odd Fellows' Savings & Commercial Bank
Opinion of the Court
On the 1st day of March, 1875, the Odd Fellows’ Bank of Savings was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of three thousand dollars for moneys at and before that time deposited with it. On the day mentioned that bank conveyed all of its property to the defendant upon the consideration and agreement that defendant would accept, take, and receive the same, and assume and pay all the debts and liabilities of said Odd Fellows’ Bank of Savings, including the demand of the plaintiff. Defendant accepted the property of the Odd Fellows’ Bank of Savings,
We must affirm the judgment.
Ordered accordingly.
McKinstry, J., and McKee, J., concurred.
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- JOHN GREEN v. ODD FELLOWS' SAVINGS & COMMERCIAL BANK
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- LnurrATioN—Banking Corporations—Depositoe.—Where one banking corporation takes from another an assignment of all of its property and as a consideration agrees to pay all of the debts and liabilities of the assignor, and proceeds to conduct the business of banking, and credits a depositor of the former bank with the amount of his deposit upon its own books of account, it assumes towards the depositor the same relation that its assignor bore. The creditor is a depositor with the bank, and his claim cannot be barred by the Statute of Limitations.