Commercial National Bank & Trust Co. v. Hughes

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Chancery Court of the Second Judicial District of Jones County awarding appellees a money judgment for $19,273.84.

Appellees had a checking account in appellant bank. The signature card authorized only them to sign checks on it. In late December 1959, appellees learned that appellant, since July 1954, had been permitting their secretary to sign checks on the account. Of the checks so signed by her, she had made 126 of them payable to herself and had cashed or deposited them to her personal account.

Appellees learned also that appellant, since January…