Perley v. Glastonbury Bank & Trust Co.

Two defendant banks have appealed a judgment for the plantiffs in an action to recover from the Glastonbury Bank and Trust Company, hereinafter the drawee bank, the amount of a cheek drawn by the plaintiff Alice E. Perley payable to two payees and paid by the drawee bank on a forged endorsement of one of the payees. The drawee bank impleaded as third-party defendant the payor bank, the Connecticut Bank and Trust Company.

The facts will emerge in greater detail in our discussion of the trial court’s findings and conclusions, but, briefly summarized, involved a transaction between the plaintiffs…