Newspaper cutting
Category
Ephemera
Date
Unknown
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
165 x 165 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749869.22
Summary
Three of a series of newspaper cuttings - miscellaneous items of interest to the family. L22 (a) A newspaper cutting from THE TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1931 Article caption: HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KING'S BENCH DIVISION AN ALTERED CHEQUE: LIABILITY OF PAYING BANK SLINGSBY AND OTHERS v THE DISTRICT BANK Before Mr. JUSTICE WRIGHT HIS LORDSHIP delivered a considerable judgment for the plaintiffs in this action, in which the plaintiffs, the executors of a deceased person's estate, claimed that they had been wrongly debited by the defendant bank with £5,000 in respect of a cheque drawn by them and fraudulently altered by a solicitor to whom it was entrusted. The facts appear fully in the judgment. ................................ L22 (b) A newspaper cutting from THE TIMES COURT OF APPEAL AN ALTERED CHEQUE: LIABILITY OF PAYING BANK SLINGSBY AND OTHERS v. DISTRICT BANK, LTD. Before LORD JUSTICE SCRUTTON, LORD JUSTICE GREER, and LORD JUSTICE ROMER The court delivered reserved judgments dismissing this appeal by the defendants, District Bank, Limited, from a decision of Mr. justice Wright in favour of the plaintiffs, the executors of a deceased person's estate. In the action (reported in 47 The Times L.R., 587; (1931) 2 K.B., 588) the plaintiffs claimed that they had been wrongly debited by the defendant bank with £5,000 in respect of a cheque drawn by them and fraudulently altered by a solicitor to whom it was entrusted. The facts appear in the judgment. ............................... L22 (c) A newspaper cutting from THE TIMES THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931 HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE KINGS BENCH DIVISION A CHEQUE GIVEN TO CARDSHARPER NATION CITY BANK OF NEW YORK v. JONES Before MR. JUSTICE BRANSON HIS LORDSHIP gave judgment for the defendant in this action in which the National City Bank of New York sued Mr. Andrew Goronwy Jones, of 95, Cornwall-gardens, S.W., as drawer of a cheque for £100, dated March 13, 1931, payable to the order of C. W. snow, and indorsed by Snow for value to the National City Bank of New York (France), and indorsed by them to the plaintiffs for collection, payment of which was countermanded by the defendant. ............................................