Kriste

Kriste v. International Savings & Exchange Bank

Good Law
17 Cal. App. 301·1911 Cal. App. LEXIS 82·119 P. 666
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaOctober 24, 1911Civ. No. 967.California2,274 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

James, J.

This action was brought by plaintiffs upon two alleged demands against defendant, the first being to recover the sum of $306.50, money alleged to have been deposited with defendant bank and which the latter had refused to repay the plaintiffs; the second being for the sum of $126, as damages alleged to have been suffered by plaintiffs because of the failure of defendant to give seasonable notice to the plaintiffs of the dishonor of certain negotiable instruments in the form of time-checks, which had been indorsed to defendant for the purpose of collection. The judgment was in favor of the plaintiffs on both counts of their complaint, and this appeal is taken from that judgment, and also from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

In answering the first cause of action alleged by the plaintiffs, defendant admitted that the sum of money first claimed had been deposited with it in the usual course of its banking business and placed to the credit of plaintiffs. It was then set out by way of special defense that this credit had been levied upon under writ of execution issued on a judgment of the justice’s court of Los Angeles township in an action brought by one Brodzevich against…

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