50 So. 137 | Ala. | 1909
The checks were drawn for the Samson Lire Stock Company, a firm composed of Morris and Edge, by Griggs, the bookkeeper of said firm, and who was also assistant cashier of the plaintiff bank, and upon the order and direction of one of the partners, Edge. It was therefore immaterial as to the instructions given Griggs by Morris, as between the firm and third persons, as Edge had as much authority to direct the bookkeeper as his copartner, Morris, and, when the checks were drawn upon the direction of one of the partners and were paid by the bank, they became a valid claim against the firm and each member thereof, regardless of the previous instructions from Morris to Griggs.
It was also immaterial that the firm had been dissolved when the last check was drawn and paid by the bank, unless the bank had notice of the dissolution, as it had been dealing with said firm, and the individual partners were liable for the debts contracted, even after dissolution, unless the bank had notice of said dissolution. True, the defendants proposed to show that Griggs had notice of the dissolution; but Griggs occupied a dual position, and the notice he may have acquired as bookkeeper of the defendants could not be imputed to the bank. — Traders’ Ins. Co. v. Letcher, 143 Ala. 400, 39 South. 271; Cen. Ry. of Ga. v. Joseph, 125 Ala. 319, 28 South. 35; Patterson v. Irvin, 142 Ala. 401, 38 South. 121. The defendants did not propose to prove that the hank had notice of the dissolution, or that Griggs got notice while acting for the bank. If he knew of the dissolution because of being bookkeeper for the defendants, notice thus acquired was not binding on the hank. To have put the trial court in error, defendants should have proposed to show that the bank, or that Griggs, as agent of the bank, had notice of the dissolution, as notice to Griggs, who was also bookkeeper of the defendants, was
The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed.
Affirmed.