Linhart v. Central National Bank
Linhart v. Central National Bank
Opinion of the Court
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This appeal arises out of the refusal of the Court of
We are unable to see that the action of the plaintiff’s husband in depositing his note in the bank when notified that the check was returned for want of funds affects in any way the defendant’s liability. The evidence shows that after the deposit of the check Mrs. Linhart drew her check against the fund and forwarded it to California and it was to prevent the dishonor of this check that the husband gave his note to the bank. There is nothing to. show that this was intended to relieve the bank from liability to Mrs. Linhart and the transaction had not that legal effect. The defendant can not avail itself of the plea that the plaintiff retained possession of the check and that it was therefore deprived of a lien thereon or of the means of reimbursing itself, for the credit given Mrs. Linhart by the bank was canceled and the check was delivered to her husband. In so doing the bank disavowed title or right of lien and sought to rescind the transaction. It could not deny to the plaintiff the credit it had allowed and at the same time claim the check. We agree with the Court of Common Pleas that a case is not made out which entitled the defendant to an appeal.
The judgment is affirmed.
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- Linhart v. Central National Bank of Wilkinsburg
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- Banks and banking — Checks—Belay in presentation. Where a check is deposited during banking hours, on July 3d, and should have been .forwarded for clearance and collection on July 5th, a holiday intervening, but is not presented on the drawee bank until July 7th, when payment is refused on account of insufficient funds/ the bank in which the check was deposited for collection is liable to the owner of the cheek. The fact is immaterial that the bank in which the check was deposited was in a borough and the collecting and clearing .bank in an adjoining city, if it appears that business was transacted between the two banks by messenger and not by mail, and that the course of business between the two banks was the same as if they had' both been in the city. In such a ease it is immaterial that the husband of the owner of the cheek deposited his note'in the bank when notified that the check had been dishonored, if it appears that the wife after having deposited the check, drew her' own check against the fund and forwarded it to a distant state, and the note was given to prevent the dishonor of the wife’s check.