Newspaper cutting
The Times
Category
Ephemera
Date
16 Jul 1931
Materials
Newspaper
Measurements
165 x 165 mm
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Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 749869.22.1
Summary
The first of three out 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. ................................
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.
Makers and roles
The Times, printer and publisher