Court Opinion

ID: 9825073
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 12:02:04.454024+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:40:23.460181
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
It would seem that we were in error in what we said in our original opinion as to a “cashier’s check” — the legal equivalent of a “certified check” — operating as payment of the debt, etc., when procured by the debtor and forwarded to, and accepted by, the creditor; this, of course, unless the creditor specifically accepts the check in payment, etc, (which was not true in this case).
The law is rather as stated in the opinion by the Supreme Court in the case of Deal v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 225 Ala. 533, 144 So. 81, 85, 86 A. L. R. 455, viz.: “If the holder of a check procures it to be accepted or certified, the drawer and all indorsers are discharged * * * the rule is otherwise where the drawer, before delivery, pro-, cures the acceptance or certification.” (Italics ours.) In this latter case the drmver is “still bound to make the check good.”
However, we cannot reverse the judgment appealed from, because of the second reason given by us for the affirmance, in our original opinion. Under the rule for our guidance, as we understand it, we must assume that there was testimony (omitted from the bill of exceptions) showing conclusively that the *70check here in question was actually paid. Stafford v. Jones, 224 Ala. 583, 141 So. 246.
The application for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion extended; 'application overruled.