White v. Pike

— On October 20, 1947, one David R. Middleton broke into the office building of the Baker Manufacturing Company of Omaha, Nebraska, and among other things stolen were some obsolete check blanks of the Baker Company. Three days later Middleton went to the Lew White’s Auto Sales Company in Omaha and representing himself as Roland R. Baker and the owner of the Baker Manufacturing Company, he purchased a Chevrolet automobile, giving in payment therefor a printed Baker Manufacturing Company check which he filled out in the sum of $2400 and which he signed “Roland R. Baker.” The plaintiff, Lewis…