Court Opinion

ID: 5418040
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:21:58.927478+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:06.590226
License: Public Domain

Per Curiam.

In respect of the plaintiff’s causes of action, there is ample evidence to sustain the jury’s findings in defendant’s favor. In respect of the counterclaim, defendant, by having the check certified, accepted the bank as his debtor and released plaintiff as maker, and he also elected to take the check as a payment for the transaction because of which the check was made. His claim, if any, should have been on the check itself, and not on the original transaction. Since the check is lost he cannot sue upon it except as a lost check. If plaintiff refuses to consent to the payment of the check to defendant, an equity action may possibly lie against plaintiff and the bank upon proper tender of security. At all events, the judgment in this action in defendant’s favor upon the counterclaim founded upon the original transaction is unauthorized.
Judgment reversed, with ten dollars costs to appellant, and judgment directed dismissing plaintiff’s complaint on the merits and dismissing the counterclaim on the merits.
All concur; present, Guy, Bijur and Mullan, JJ.
Judgment reversed.