First Nat'L Bank v. Noble et al.
Citation | 179 Or. 26,168 P.2d 354 |
Parties | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND <I>v.</I> NOBLE and THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND |
Decision Date | 23 April 1946 |
Court | Supreme Court of Oregon |
See 7 Am. Jur. 379; Right to stop payment on cashier's check notes, 56 A.L.R. 532, 107 A.L.R. 1463; see also, 9 A.L.R. 960 and 62 A.L.R. 374 168 P. (2d) 354
IN BANC.
Appeal from Circuit Court, Multnomah County.
H.B. Beckett, of Portland (Wilbur, Beckett, Oppenheimer, Mautz & Souther, and R.K. Powell, all of Portland, on brief), for appellants.
R.R. Bullivant, of Portland (Pendergrass, Spackman & Bullivant, and C.E. Wright, all of Portland, on brief), for respondent First National Bank of Portland.
Wilber Henderson, of Portland (Platt, Henderson, Warner, Cram & Dickinson, of Portland, on brief), for respondent United States National Bank of Portland.
REVERSED AS TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK; AFFIRMED AS TO UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK. REHEARING DENIED.
The plaintiff First National Bank of Portland (Oregon) instituted this proceeding as an action in assumpsit against the defendants Lillian S. Noble and John C. Noble and the United States National Bank of Portland (Oregon). Plaintiff seeks restitution in the sum of $10,573.50, the amount of a cashier's check issued by the First National to the U.S. National. The U.S. National filed a bill in interpleader alleging that it was disinterested as between the parties and tendering the money into court. The interpleader was allowed and an order entered discharging the U.S. National of all liability. By assent of the parties, the case was tried below as a suit in equity. The plaintiff prevailed against the defendants Noble who appeal.
The facts are as follows: John C. and Lillian S. Noble had purchased certain property from T.D. Lee through Kelleck, a broker. Subsequently by written agreement the sale was rescinded. In accordance with the agreement, the property was reconveyed. Mrs. Noble paid T.D. Lee $693.49 in adjustment of items which had arisen while the Nobles were in possession of the property and before the rescission; and E.C. Kelleck, who did business as the West Coast Brokerage Company, on September 21 drew and issued a check for $10,573.50 on the drawee First National Bank, payable to Lillian S. Noble to whom it was delivered. The Nobles received the Kelleck check in good faith and for value. Before noon of the same day, Mrs. Noble indorsed the check in blank and deposited it in the U.S. National Bank. Twenty-five hundred dollars was deposited in their joint checking account, the balance in their joint savings account. These deposits appear as credits to the Nobles in the ledger and savings pass book, respectively, under date of September 21.
The rules printed in the savings pass book and on the commercial deposit slip were substantially the same. They provide that checks and drafts are credited conditionally — may be charged back "if not found good" — and that the bank will be liable only where actual funds or solvent credits come into its possession.
On September 21 the U.S. National placed its clearing house indorsement on the back of the Kelleck check, but according to custom the stamp was dated September 22, the day for final settlement through the clearing house. The Kelleck check reached the First National on September 22. Reference to the Kelleck account disclosed that he had a credit of only $200. The check, therefore, was referred to Mr. T.D. Peters, assistant cashier of the First National. Peters placed on the lower left hand corner of the face of the check a small symbol, the meaning of which was known only to himself and to certain persons in the bookkeeping department and which indicated...
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