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Michigan Law Review

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1934

Iowa

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Bills And Notes - Holder's Right On Contract To Pay Checks Dec 1934

Bills And Notes - Holder's Right On Contract To Pay Checks

Michigan Law Review

Defendant bank agreed to honor checks drawn by a cattle buyer and carry them as cash items until funds were deposited from sales of stock. During an illness of the buyer the bank authorized buyer's agent to continue the practice, without informing said agent of large overdrafts on the account. The agent ordered the bank to draw a sight draft on a Chicago commission house and credit it to the account for the purpose of covering, among others, a check given to plaintiff, who apparently knew nothing of the arrangement between the drawer and drawee. The bank, however, applied the …