Siminoff
Siminoff v. Jas. H. Goodman & Co. Bank
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Chipman, J.
The question presented in this ease is whether the complaint states a cause of action. The complaint was filed on September 27, 1909, and sets forth six causes of action. In the first cause of action, it alleges that the defendant was and is a banking corporation organized under the laws of this state, and conducting a general banking business and acting as a banking corporation, with its principal office and place of business located in the city of Napa in Napa county. It is next alleged that, at all the times involved, the plaintiff was a trader in good financial standing and credit, and engaged in the business of manufacturing, selling and dealing in ladies’ cloaks and suits in said city of Napa; and that he was a customer of and depositor with the defendant, and had and kept a banking account with defendant, subject to his, said plaintiff’s, checks. , It is then alleged that, from June 16 to June 19, 1909, plaintiff had in defendant bank a balance due and owing him exceeding the sum of $21.05, subject to plaintiff’s checks; that, on June 16, 1909, plaintiff drew his cheek number 627 on defendant bank, for $21.05, payable to the order of Meyer Cloak Company, in payment for an…