Thrower v. Coble Dairy Products Co-Operative, Inc.

The defendant presents three questions for review: (1) Is the defendant responsible to the plaintiff for the loss caused by Queen’s falsification of the invoices? (2) Is the plaintiff barred from recovery by his negligent failure to discover and prevent Queen’s fraud? (3) Did the court err in fixing the amount of the recovery?

The evidence is amply sufficient to support the court’s findings that Queen was “an employee, agent, and servant of the defendant corporation . . . was acting in the course and scope of his employment in dealing with the plaintiff and the controversy herein involved…