Farmers' State Bank v. United States

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

The judgment appealed from was for the recovery by the appellee, the United States, against the appellant, Farmers’ State Bank in Merkel, a corporation, of the aggregate amount, with interest thereon, of several checks issued by a duly appointed, qualified, and acting Property and Disbursing Officer of the United States on the Treasurer of the United States and made payable to the order of Walter Frazier. Appellee’s petition contained allegations to the following effect: Each of those checks, having thereon the forged indorsement of the payee, came into the possession of…