Nashville Produce Co. v. Sewell
Nashville Produce Co. v. Sewell
Opinion of the Court
A. M. Sewell sued out an attachment against the Nashville Produce Company, alleging that it resided beyond the limits of the State. A summons of garnishment was issued and served upon the First National Bank of Macon, which.answered in the usual form that it had no property and was not indebted, “save and except that on September 2d, 1903, it held, for collection and remittance to Nashville, Tenn., a certáin draft drawn by the Nashville Produce Company, of Nashville, Tenn., on C. E. Newton & Bro.; that said C. E. Newton & Brother paid it $40.0-0, the amount for which said draft was drawn, and on September 2d the said First National Bank of Macon, Georgia, held the sum of
Deposits made with bankers may be divided into two general classes, viz.: those in which the banker becomes the bailee of the depositor, the title to the thing deposited remaining with the latter ; and tiróse where money is the thing deposited in accordance ' with a custom peculiar to the banking business, where the depositor, for his own convenience, parts with the title to the money and loans it to the banker, and the latter, in consideration of the loan of the money and the right to use it for his own profit, agrees to refund the same amount, or any part thereof, on demand. Commercial Bank v. Armstrong, 148 U. S. 59. We can not supply by inference or otherwise the particular course of dealing which existed between the Macon bank and the defendant in attachment, or assume’ that there was any special contract between them respecting the manner in which collection of commercial paper should be made by the bank and the proceeds . turned over to the defendant. . The bank’s answer admits in its possession, between the date of the service of the summons of garnishment and its answer, the sum of $40.00, which it held for remittance to Nashville, Tenn., to the defendant in attachment. When the summons was served upon the bank, the draft drawn by the Nashville Produce Co. upon its Macon debtor had not been collected. But the bank afterwards collected the draft, and when its proceeds came into the possession of the bank, it became possessed of property belonging to the defendant in attachment and held the same as agent of the defendant company. The relation between the Macon bank and the Nashville Produce Co., when the bank collected the money, was that of bailor and bailee, and •not that of debtor and creditor. The service of the summons of garnishment gave the bank warning not to mingle with its general funds any money belonging to the defendant which might come into its hands thereafter; and, it seems, the bank gave heed to this warning and, when it collected the draft, kept the proceeds separate and distinct as a fund belonging to the Nashville Produce Co. The bank might have returned the draft to its nonresident customer and apprised it of the condition of affairs; but
There was no error in overruling the certiorari.
Judgment affirmed.
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