Braswell Motor Freight Lines, Inc. v. Bank of Salt Lake

ELLETT, Justice:

This is an appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the defendant.

The appellant began this action to recover from the respondent $574,031.32, which money was deposited in the defendant bank by one Kendall in a series of transactions and thereafter withdrawn from the account by the depositor. Kendall was unknown to the appellant but was well known to its assistant comptroller, an ex-convict by the name of Wertz, who engineered the scheme resulting in the loss complained of.

Kendall opened an account in defendant’s bank under the name of Braswell Motor Freight Lines and filled…