Borserine v. Maryland Casualty Co.

SANBORN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment for the plaintiff, Maryland Casualty Company, in a suit brought to recover from L. H. Borserine, Jr., the amount which the Casualty Company, as the insurer and indemnitor of the Merchants Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, against loss from paying checks bearing forged endorsements, had paid in settlement of the liability of the bank upon eight checks received from Borserine bearing forged endorsements of the payees.

The facts are not in dispute and are in substance as follows:

B. C. Christopher & Company, the maker of the checks, was a firm…