Rounsavel v. Scholfield

Decided April 15, 1817

Assumpsit, for money had and received. The plaintiff offered in evidence, a check drawn by the defendant upon the Union Bank, payable to B. Baden, or bearer, which, having been the property of the Merchants Bank, was delivered to the plaintiff by the cashier of that bank, for value received. offered evidence to prove, that the cashier of the Merchants Bank had no authority to deliver the check to the plaintiff, and that while it was the property of that bank, the defendant…

Decided 1817-04-15

¶1Whereupon

the Qourt(Thruston, J., absent,)

¶2upon the motion of the defendant’s counsel, instructed the jury that if they should be satisfied by the evidence that the plaintiff, when he received the check, knew that the cashier of the Merchants Bank had no right to transfer it, he could not recover in this suit, and that if the plaintiff, when he took the check, knew that it had been dishonored by the bank on which it was drawn, he took it liable to all the equitable and legal defence which the defendant then had against the Merchants Bank.