Case Name: Carrara Paint Agency Co. v. American Nat. Bank of Barberton et al.
Court: Hamilton Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1906-12-29
Citations: 19 Ohio C.C. Dec. 485
Docket Number: 
Parties: Carrara Paint Agency Co. v. American Nat. Bank of Barberton et al.
Judges: Jelke and Swing, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Decisions
Volume: 19
Pages: 485–486

Head Matter:
BILLS, NOTES AND CHECKS.
[Hamilton (1st) Circuit Court,
December 29, 1906.]
Jelke, Swing and Giffen, JJ.
Carrara Paint Agency Co. v. American Nat. Bank of Barberton et al.
Burden or Proving Acceptance oe Bill of Exchange.
Where the execution of the acceptance of a hill of exchange is denied, the burden of proving such execution is thrown upon the plaintiff.
[Syllabus approved by the court.]
Error to Hamilton common pleas court.
C. W. Baker, for plaintiff in error.
Karch & Quasser, for the bank.
Harmon, Colston,' Goldsmith & Hoadly, for the cash register company and O. E. Robinson:
The American National Bank sued the Carrara Paint Agency Company, as acceptor, the Twentieth Century Cash Register Company, as drawer, and O. E. Robinson, as indorser of a bill of exchange for $2,500. At the trial below an instructed verdict was returned for the bank for the full amount of its claim.
The citations of the paint company in support of its petition in eiTor were: Chicago Electric L. By. v. Hutchinson, 25 Ill. App. 476; Gray r. Tunstall, 1 TIempst. 558 [10 Fed. Cas. 1041]; Walsenburg Water Go. v. Moore, 5 Colo. App. 144 [38 Pac. Rep. 60]c; First Nat. Bank r. Carson, 30 Neb. 104 [46 N. W. Rep. 276] ■ Monitor Plow Works v. Born, 33 Neb. 747 [51 N. W. Rep. 129]; Siefke v. Siefke, 51 N. Y. St. 761 [22 N.. Y. Supp. 546] ; Wallace v. Wallace, 8 Ill. App. 69.

Opinion:
GIFFEN, J.
The defendant, the Carrara Paint Agency Company, denied by answer that it ever made, executed or delivered,, or ever authorized to be made, executed or delivered, the acceptances set forth in the petition. The burden of proving the execution of the acceptances was thereby placed upon the plaintiff. Pavey v. Pavey, 30 Ohio St. 600; Booco v. Mansfield, 66 Ohio St. 121 [64 N. E. Rep. 115] ; Rev. Stat. 5190, 6577 (Lan. 8699, 10159).
The eashier of the bank testified that the signature of the Carrara Paint Agency Company was "put upon the drafts before they came into the bank; ' ' but this was in answer to a question which assumed that the signatures were genuine. Counsel for defendant objected to this question, but the court overruled the objection; to which ruling the defendant excepted.
This was prejudicial error. If the bank is a holder in due course a valid delivery of the drafts^ by all parties prior to it so as to make them liable to it is conclusively presumed. Revised Statute 3171o (Lan. 4913).
Judgment reversed and cause remanded for a new trial.
Jelke and Swing, JJ., concur.