GENERAL FINANCE CORP. OF FLA. v. CENTRAL B. & T. CO.

No. 17370.

264 F.2d 869 (1959)

GENERAL FINANCE CORPORATION OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. CENTRAL BANK AND TRUST COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward McCarthy, Anderson M. Foote, Jr., Elliott Adams, Jacksonville, Fla., McCarthy, Lane & Adams, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellant.

Jerry B. Crockett, Scott McCarthy, Preston, Steel & Gilleland, Miami, Fla., for The First Nat. Bank of Miami, appellee.

Richard J. Horwich, Pallot, Cassel & Marks, Miami, Fla., for Central Bank & Trust Co., appellee.

Before RIVES, TUTTLE and CAMERON, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This appeal from a judgment in favor of two defendant banks presents for construction several sections of the Florida Banking Laws. More precisely we are to decide whether Section 676.55, F.S.A., which has no counterpart in the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Law, and Sections 676.07, 676.08 and 676.48, F.S.A.,1 place upon a drawee or payor bank the duty to return a check drawn on it not later than the day following...

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