Georges Township School District Case

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Walling,

The Township of Georges, in Fayette County, is a third-class school district and as such constituted the First National Bank of Smithfield its depository of school funds for the year ending July 1, 1926. The township auditors in passing upon the depository’s accounts for that year surcharged it with nineteen items, totalling $3,026.29, as having been improperly disbursed. Three of the items were paid out on forged checks, thirteen were repayments of checks previously paid by the depository, and for the three other items of credit claimed no vouchers were…