Morgan v. . the Bank of the State of New-York

Johnson, J. The bank had received from the plaintiff deposits of cash amounting to $716.92, and were consequently indebted to him in that amount. To an action for this sum they claimed, by way of defense, to have paid the amount by the plaintiff’s order. This defense they failed to prove upon the trial. They proved an order .by the plaintiff to pay the money to G. W. Corlies & Co., or their order, and the payment of the money thereupon to somebody, but did not prove that the money was paid to G. W. Corlies & Co., or their order. On the contrary,_the plaintiff proved that the indorsements of the checks with the name of G. W. Corlies & Co. were forgeries. Upon these facts the plaintiff was entitled to recover. The money had not been paid to and according to the plaintiff’s order. (Coggill v. Am. Exc. Bank, 1 Comst. 113. Weisser v. Denison, Court of Appeals, Mar. T., 1854.) The judgment should be affirmed. Judgment affirmed.