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2 Thomp. & Cook 456

Whipple v. Walker

New York Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1873

New York Supreme Court · decided 1873-12-15

The action was brought upon a promissory note given by the defendant, Lois T. Walker, to the plaintiff, William D. Whipple, on July 31, 1869, for $55.17 and interest. The note was made payable at the bank of Williams & Remington, in Canandaigua, IST. Y., where it was left by plaintiff, after the usual custom of business men, to enable the bank to receive payment of it.

Decided 1873-12-15

E. Dakwim Smith, J.

¶1We think the referee erred in deducting the proceeds of the Tate draft from the amount of the plaintiff’s recovery.

¶2This draft was collected by the bank, not as agent of the plaintiff, but as agent of Spencer Gooding, the defendant’s attorney, and passed to his credit in account in the books of the bank and paid to him.

¶3The plaintiff had nothing to do with it, and the said draft or the moneys collected on it at no time became the property of the plaintiff. The bank was simply intrusted by the plaintiff with the note of the defendant for collection, and had no power to bind the plaintiff by any contracts to receive any thing but money in pay-*458meat thereof, or to do with said note any thing else but to receive payment of it in cash.

¶4The judgment must be reversed, and a new trial granted with costs to abide the event.

¶5Judgment reversed.

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