Dean v. Centerre Bank of North Kansas City

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

Appellants are trustees of a certain trust which had its bank account with respondent Centerre Bank of North Kansas City, Missouri (Bank). The trustees hired an accountant, Ron Jenkins, to administer the account. The only two living trustees, Logan and Lee both had authority to both write checks, Jenkins was authorized by them to receive the monthly bank statements and cancelled checks as well as all income payable to the trust for deposit. About a year after being hired, Jenkins began forging the signatures of the trustees on checks on the trust bank account. The checks…