Butler Produce & Canning Co. v. Edgerton State Bank

This is an appeal on questions of law from a judgment entered on a verdict for the defendant.

Plaintiff corporation brings its action for recovery of the proceeds of three cheeks cashed by the defendant upon allegedly, forged endorsements of the names of the payees thereof by one Earl L. Brant, an associate and employee of the plaintiff. One of the checks was made payable to the plaintiff and two of them were payable to the Blackford County Canning Company, a nonincorporated business owned and operated by one Jacob H. Walz, who was also treasurer of the plaintiff. Prior to the commencement of…