Pacific Coast Cheese, Inc. v. Security-First National Bank

— Certain cheeks drawn against plaintiff’s commercial' account were altered so as to raise the amounts for which they had been written. Defendant bank honored the checks as altered, and the raised amounts were deducted from plaintiff’s account. Subsequently the bank dishonored other checks of plaintiff on the ground that insufficient funds remained in the account after the deductions had been made. This action was brought to recover the amounts which plaintiff asserted had been wrongfully deducted from its account by reason of the bank’s payment of the raised checks. Plaintiff also sought…