Miller v. Citizens National Trust & Savings Bank

WILLIS, J., pro tem.

Appellants, plaintiffs below, brought suit against respondent bank and Paul A. Wickham to recover damages resulting from wrongful and fraudulent acts of Wickham. The case was submitted on the pleadings and a written stipulation of facts which the lower court adopted as its findings, and thereon made its conclusion that plaintiffs were entitled to take nothing from respondent bank.

At the time of the acts complained of herein Wickham was the employee and agent of the bank and was given the title of “Manager Escrow Department” in its Larchmont Avenue branch in Los Angeles.…