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  "name": "HARVEY BONEY v. BANK OF ROSE HILL",
  "name_abbreviation": "Boney v. Bank of Rose Hill",
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      "HARVEY BONEY v. BANK OF ROSE HILL."
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      {
        "text": "Pee Cueiam:.\nStatement of tbe account between plaintiff and defendant, furnished to plaintiff by defendant, were competent evidence upon the trial of the issue; exceptions to the admission of such statements by defendant cannot be sustained. Defendant relied upon the checks which it had returned to plaintiff, with the statements, as credits on the account ; its exceptions to the admission of these checks as evidence must therefore be overruled.\nAssignments of error based upon exceptions to instructions given the jury by the court in its charge cannot be sustained. The burden of the issue was upon plaintiff but, when he had offered evidence showing the amount of the deposits and the balance due after crediting defendant with checks which plaintiff admitted he had signed, it was incumbent on defendant to offer evidence that payments made on the checks in controversy were proper credits on the account. There was no error, in charging the jury that if they found the facts to.be as testified and as shown by the evidence, they should answer the issue, \u201c$2,841.50 with interest from 15 November, 1923.\u201d\nSince the docketing of this case in this Court, upon appeal, defendant has moved for a new trial upon newly discovered evidence. \u00a5e have examined the affidavits filed in support of this motion with care. The checks in controversy were signed in plaintiff's name by J. A. Banner-man, at the time cashier of defendant bank. J. A. Bannerman thereafter became incapacitated, physically and mentally, and died before the trial of the action. The newly discovered evidence, as set out in the affidavits, tends to show that Bannerman made deposits to plaintiff\u2019s credit, in excess of the aggregate amount of the checks drawn by him in plaintiff\u2019s name and charged to the account. It fails to show, however, any authority from plaintiff to Bannerman to sign his name to checks on his account; nor does it show any relationship between plaintiff and Bannerman with respect to this account from which such authority could be found by a jury. The fact alone that Bannerman deposited funds to plaintiff\u2019s credit, notwithstanding the source of the funds, did not authorize him to check in plaintiff\u2019s name on the account; nor did it authorize defendant to pay said checks. It does not appear from the affidavits that upon a new trial of the issue, the evidence relied upon by defendant would establish Bannerman\u2019s authority to sign plaintiff\u2019s name to cheeks on his individual account. Defendant\u2019s situation with respect to these checks is unfortunate, but the evidence discovered since the trial is not such as to entitle defendant to a new trial under the rules of this Court. Johnson v. R. R., 163 N. C., 454; Manuel v. R. R., 188 N. C., 559. The motion must be denied. There is\nNo error.",
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        "author": "Pee Cueiam:."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Stevens, Beasley & Stevens for plaintiff.",
      "O. B. Turner and Ward & Ward for defendant."
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    "head_matter": "HARVEY BONEY v. BANK OF ROSE HILL.\n(Filed 14 October, 1925.)\nAppeal by defendant from Devin, J., at January Term, 1924, of DupliN. No error.\nDuring the year 1921 plaintiff was a depositor of defendant bank. Erom time to time he made deposits in and drew checks on said bank. These cheeks were paid by defendant and charged to plaintiff\u2019s account. He alleges that the balance due him on said account was $2,841.50; that he has demanded of defendant payment of this sum and that defendant has refused to pay the same. Defendant denies that there is any sum due plaintiff as balance on his account.\nThe controversy involves certain checks which defendant paid and charged to plaintiff\u2019s account. These checks were signed \u201cHarvey Boney, J. A. B.\u201d Plaintiff contends that he did not sign or authorize any one else to sign these cheeks and that defendant is not entitled to credit for same. Defendant contends that the sums paid for these checks were proper credit on its account with plaintiff.\nPlaintiff offered evidence tending to sustain his contention. Defendant offered no evidence. Upon the verdict, judgment was rendered that plaintiff recover of defendant the sum of $2,841.50 with interest from 15 November, 1923, and costs. From this judgment defendant appealed, assigning errors in the admission of 'testimony and in instructions to the jury.\nStevens, Beasley & Stevens for plaintiff.\nO. B. Turner and Ward & Ward for defendant."
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