Quinlan v. National Casualty Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Burke

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff, a corporation engaged in the real estate brokerage and management business, had in its employ as a bookkeeper and cashier at its Evanston office from the year 1923 up to December 18, 1934, a woman named Bertha C. Burnham. On the latter day it was discovered that during the last eight years of her employment she had embezzled $72,297.57. Of this sum she embezzled $33,917.60 up to May 31,1931; $13,563.94 during the year preceding June 1,1932; $6,587.97 during the year preceding June 1,1933; $12,080.57 during the year…