UNION NAT. BANK, ETC. v. METRO. NAT. BANK

No. 78-253.

578 S.W.2d 220 (1979)

UNION NATIONAL BANK OF LITTLE ROCK, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas, In Banc.

March 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. R. Nixon, Jr., Little Rock, for appellant.

Friday, Eldredge & Clark by Paul B. Benham III, Little Rock, for appellee.


GEORGE ROSE SMITH, Justice.

This is a controversy between two Little Rock banks over which one is to bear a $5,868.15 loss that resulted from Union National Bank's having cashed 15 bad checks drawn on an account in Metropolitan National Bank. The trial judge held that Union must bear the loss, because Metropolitan promptly returned the bad checks. Union contends that the return was not timely, so that Metropolitan should suffer the loss.

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