Guaranty Bond State Bank of Athens v. Fraternal Bank & Trust Co.

This is a suit by appellee, a corporation having its banking offices at Fort Worth, to recover upon three checks drawn upon it and payable at Fort Worth, and indorsed by appellant after the payee's indorsement, without knowledge of appellant, had been forged.

The checks were drawn by a colored Masonic order, payable to beneficiaries of deceased members of said order. They were offered to the appellant, a corporation having its banking offices in Henderson county, Tex., at said offices each in this manner: One Garrett, secretary of the local subdivision of said order, appeared at the bank…