Glassell Development Co. v. Citizens' Natlional Bank of Los Angeles

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action by the plaintiff to recover $10,495.85 paid out of the account of the plaintiff on eight altered or raised checks between January 18, 1917, and July 23, 1918.

The plaintiff and five other corporations during the period involved in the transactions giving rise to this action maintained a joint office in the city of Los Angeles under the management of C. Wesley Roberts. One Charles H. Smith was in charge of this joint office. He had sole charge of the auditing and bookkeeping for all of these companies, and the clerks and…