Coleman Drilling Co. v. First Nat. Bank of Burkburnett

This suit was brought by the Coleman Drilling Company, a partnership, against the First National Bank of Burk-burnett, to recover funds deposited with the bank and paid out by it on forged checks. The bank pleaded negligence and estoppel on the part of the plaintiffs in that they failed to examine the monthly statements made up by it, wliich were accompanied by checks charged against the account, thus permitting the continuance of the forgeries, which would have been otherwise detected. To this the plaintiffs in turn answered that the bank was negligent in not detecting the forgeries in the…