First State Bank of Wichita Falls v. Oak Cliff Savings & Loan Ass'n

An impostor is one who, “by assuming a character or identity' not his own, fraudulently induces the drawer . . . of a check to draw ... a check to him in his assumed identity and to deliver the check to him believing him to be the person he pretends to be and the payee . of the check.” Annot., 81 A.L.R.2d 1365, 1367 (1962).1

A forger is a person who “without fraudulent representations to the drawer of a check that he is the intended payee of the check, comes into possession, by interception, theft, or the like, of a check in which a third person is named payee and obtains payment thereof by…