Case Name: RUDISILL v. HANDLEY
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1911-09-30
Citations: 9 Ga. App. 789
Docket Number: 3064
Parties: RUDISILL v. HANDLEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 789–789

Head Matter:
3064.
RUDISILL v. HANDLEY.
A cashier of a bank, who acted also as bookkeeper, by a mistake in bookkeeping caused a customer of the bank to be credited with $200 to which he was not entitled. The mistake in entry also caused a short-. age in cash to appear. The cashier, insisting that some mistake had been made, but being unable to explain the matter satisfactorily,. paid the bank the $200, and the bank, on the faith of the false entry, delivered to the customer two shares of stock of the value of $200, and the latter accepted them for his own use. Held, that in an action in the nature of an action for money had and received, the cashier may recover the $200 from the customer who took the benefit of the cashier’s payment of that sum to the bank.
Decided September 30, 1911.
Complaint; from city court of Fitzgerald — Judge Wall. October 31, 1910.
Otis H. Elkins, for plaintiff. Alex. J. McDonald, for defendant.

Opinion:
Eussell, J.
This case comes as a sequel to the case of Citizens Bank v. Rudisill, 4 Ga. App. 37 (60 S. E. 818), where most of the facts essential to an understanding of the present case are set forth. There it was held that Eudisill had no right of -action against the bank, and it was intimated that he might have one against Handley. The headnote shows that we now hold what we then intimated. Handley stands in a very different relation to the transaction from what the bank did. He ought not to keep the stock without paying for it, and Eudisill is the one he ought to pay.
Judgment reversed.