Edgington v. Security-First National Bank

This is an appeal from a judgment denying plaintiff the recovery of a deposit with the Security-First National Bank in the sum of $7,118.94, said amount having been paid out by the bank on a series of some 145 checks signed by the plaintiff and fraudulently cashed by plaintiff’s employee Green, the latter having forged the endorsements of the named payees.

The record discloses that on April 24, 1942, the appellant Edgington employed one Thomas Green as “oil yield clerk” in appellant’s refinery located at 200 E. Artesia Blvd. in Long Beach. Green is also referred to as a “payroll clerk” in…