United States v. National Exchange Bank of Providence
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This action was brought by the United States to recover the sum of payments made át the sub-treasury in Boston upon 194 pension checks, the signatures or marks of the persons to whom the checks were payable having been forged.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OP APPEALS POR THE FIRST CIRCUIT. This action was brought by the United States to recover the sum of payments made át the sub-treasury in Boston upon 194 pension checks, the signatures or marks of the persons to whom the checks were payable having been forged. The National Exchange Bank of Boston was originally sole defendant, but in legal effect the National Exchange Bank of Providence was substituted as defendant, and the issues were made up between it and the United States. We shall hereafter refer to that bank as the Exchange Bank. The cause was tried upon an…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr; Justice White,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court.
A preliminary matter needs to-be noticed. In the opinion of the Circuit Court of Appeals it is said (italics ours):
“The precise form of only one of the so-called cheeks is shown by the record, as follows:
‘United States-Pension Agency, No. 297073.
Boston, Mass., Mch 5 1892
Assistant Treasurer of the United States
Boston, Mass.
Pay to the order of Mahala B. Jaques 9492 B81
Thirty-six 100 Dollars. $36
36 Interior
W. H. Osborne,
U. S. Pension Agent.
Paid Mar. 12, 1892
Asst. Treas., Boston.
Indorsements:
Mahala B. Jaques
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