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  "name": "Arkansas Trust & Banking Company v. Bishop",
  "name_abbreviation": "Arkansas Trust & Banking Co. v. Bishop",
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      "Arkansas Trust & Banking Company v. Bishop."
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        "text": "Kirby, J.,\n(.after stating the facts). The only question in this case for the decision of the jury was whether the bank accepted the check and beepne liable to the payment of the amount for which it issued its deposit slip to the drawee thereof. The intention of the parties to the transaction could properly have been shown for the determination of this question, and the bank having issued its regular deposit slip or ticket for the amount of the check to the drawee thereof, the burden rested upon it to show that it was not in payment of the check. The fact that the drawer of the check offered on the following day, after hearing that payment had been refused by the bank to pay the $25 to Bishop, which he refused to receive, would not relieve the hank from liability on its deposit slip, if it accepted and paid the check therewith, .and the court did not err in refusing .appellant\u2019s requested instruction numbered 4.\nNeither do we find any error in the court\u2019s ruling, refusing to allow the cashier to state what he thought when issuing the deposit slip, as the record does not disclose what his testimony would have been on this point.\nThe attorney objected to his stating what he thought, and the court said, \u201cJust tell what you did.\u201d After several questions, \u00a1he was asked, \u201cFor what purpose did you give \u00a1him that slip,\u201d and upon objection, the court said, \u201cThat is a question for the jury, better state the facts that occurred there,\u201d and it is \u00a1evident from the record that the court only intended to exclude the testimony of what the cashier had in mind, unless it was made known to the appellant at the time, and no error is shown to have been committed in his so doing.\nIn Rogers Commission Co. v. Farmers Bank of Leslie, 100 Ark. 537, the court said:\n\u201cIt was not necessary to the bank\u2019s liability that it should have on deposit to the drawer\u2019s credit more than the amount of this check at the time of its presentation, for it woiuld have become liable to its payment by an acceptance of it, and could have permitted an overdraft as it had usually done, or withheld its own check, which it claimed to have in its drawer against the \u00a1account of the maker of the \u00a1check, etc.\u201d\nThe fact that the check was \u00a1not charged by the bank to the drawer\u2019s account, iand that the drawer did not have sufficient funds on deposit to pay ithe same, could properly be considered in determining whether the bank accepted the check and paid same in the issuance of its deposit slip, but the jury under proper instructions found the issues in favor of appellee, and the judgment is affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Kirby, J.,"
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    "attorneys": [
      "A. D. DuLaney, for appellant.",
      "James 8. Steel, J. 8. Lake and James D. Head, for appellee."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "Arkansas Trust & Banking Company v. Bishop.\nOpinion delivered June 28, 1915.\nBanks and banking \u2014 acceptance of check \u2014 lack of funds. \u2014 A bank will be liable to tbe bolder o\u00ed a check for the amount of the same, when it accepted the cheek and gave the holder a deposit slip for the amount thereof, although the drawer of the check had no funds in the .bank at the time the bank accepted the check. To avoid liability the burden is on the bank .to show that the deposit slip was not issued in payment of the check.\nAppeal from Little River Circuit Court .; Jefferson T. Cowling, Judge;\naffirmed.\nstatement by the court.\nAppellee brought suit against appellant for $25 in the justice\u2019s court, .and from the judgment there against him, appealed to the circuit court, where upon a trial \u25a0anew, judgment was rendered in his favor, from which this appeal has-been prosecuted.\nIt appears from the testimony that the Simms Grocery Company was a tenant of appellee .and in 'a failing condition, .and on November 16, gave him .a check for $25 on appellant\u2019s bank, where the parties kept their accounts.\nBishop took the Check and in the morning presented it at the bank, and after a conversation with Hunt, the cashier, a deposit slip for said sum was .given to him.\nAbout 4 o\u2019clock in the afternoon, the bank cashier found Bishop in a drug store adjoining the bank and offered the check to him, saying the hank could not pay the cheek as the drawer had no funds to take care of it. Bishop refused to receive the check \u00a1and the cashier mailed it to him the \u00a1same day, with a charge ticket attached, showing what it was for.\nThe next day, or within ia day or two, Bishop took the check and charge ticket to the hank and threw it hack through the cashier\u2019s window.\nBishop testified that when he presented the check for payment, the cashier asked him if he wanted the money; that he replied, no, to give him a deposit slip, which was done, and said his first information that payment of the Check had \u00a1been refused was \u00a1about 4 o \u2019clock in the afternoon when the cashier, Mr. Hunt, told him so.\nThe cashier testified that when the check was presented, he looked at it and handed it back to Bishop, saying that the drawer was checking a little too much, that thereupon Bishop replied, \u201cWell just give me a credit slip for it then,\u201d to which the cashier said \u201call right,\u201d and issued a deposit slip.\nIt was further shown that the drawer of the check was overdrawn on the 14th; made some deposits on the 16th and 17th of over $100, but there was a check for $200 in the cashier\u2019s drawer, which had been paid which was being held as a cash item until enough deposits were made to cover it.\nThe appellee knew that the grocery company was insolvent, \u00a1and he was to be appointed trustee to wind up its affairs, and the president of the bank learned of that fact before the check was mailed to Bishop in the afternoon of the 16th. On the 17th Simms, who drew the check for the grocery company, offered to pay Bishop $25, the amount of it, which he declined, saying he was going to make the bank pay it, that he had \u00a1already accepted it.\nThe \u00a1court refused to allow the cashier to state his understanding of \u00a1the transaction of issuing the deposit slip over the objection of appellant.\nIt was admitted that Bishop was due the bank on an overdraft, when the suit was brought $6.56.\nA. D. DuLaney, for appellant.\n1. There was no privity of contract \u00a1between appel-lee and the \u00a1bank, iand mo liability on its part unless it unconditionally accepted the check for payment, and the \u25a0burden was on appellee to prove that appellant did so accept the check. 98 Ark. 7; 94 U. iS. 343.\n2. The cashier should have 'been permitted to state why he handed the check back to appellee, and what his intention was as to the check, and whether or not it was taken to be held until Simms deposited funds to cover it. The jury should have had all the facts. 7 L. R. A. (N. S.) 93 ; Id. 694, and note.\n3. If the drawer of the check offered the next day to pay appellee the lamount of the check, and the latter refused to accept it, iand no injury had been done him, he was not entitled to recover from appellant, and the court should have instructed the jury to that effect. 146 S. W. 1034; 166 S. W. 986.\nJames 8. Steel, J. 8. Lake and James D. Head, for appellee.\n1. Passing a deposit slip to a depositor for a check raises a presumption that the check was accepted as cash. 7 L. R. A. (N. 'S.) 694; 59 N. W. 987; 5 Oyes. 534-5; 91 Wis. 53. The proof in this case shows that the check was accepted as cash. 'See 4 Fed. Oas. No. 1985.\n2. The question of privity does not arise in this case. When the cashier paid the check, he knew the status of the drawer\u2019s account, and elected to pay the check rather than to protest it or refuse payment. Having made that election without being misled by appellee, the bank must abide by it. 146 S. W. 1034; 166 .S. W. 986."
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