Wm. M. Barret, Inc. v. First Nat. Bank of Shreveport

ROGERS, Justice.

Wm. M. Barret, Inc., brought this suit against the First National Bank of Shreveport to recover the sum of $21,841.01 of which $19,347.01 represents the aggregate amount of forged checks paid by the defendant and charged to the account of plaintiff, and $2,500- represents attorney’s fees demanded as damages. In the alternative, plaintiff claimed that in the event the court should hold it was not entitled to a recovery by reason of the forgery of its name on the checks that it should recover on such of the checks as bore forged endorsements. Defendant, in its answer, denied the…