Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Davis

The defendant in error entrusted a certain note to an attorney for collection, with specific instructions that the attorney was to receive from the debtor a check payable to the order of the defendant in error, have it certified by the drawee bank, and then forward it to him. The attorney, after having the check certified, indorsed it with the payee’s name, “Henry N. Davis, trustee — by H. P. McLain,” so signing his own name, and turned the check over to a third person, who, after indorsing his name, obtained the money from the drawee bank, which had no knowledge of the attorneyship relation…