Blumenkamp v. Tower Grove Bank & Trust Co.

DOERNER, Commissioner.

Plaintiff sought a judgment against defendant in the amount of $6850 based upon his claim that pursuant to § 400.3-417(2) (b), RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., defendant had warranted the genuineness of the signatures on the note and deed of trust, which subsequently were shown to have been forged. Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment rendered in this court-tried case. We affirm.

The determinative issue here presented involves a question of pleading rather than one concerning the cited section of our Uniform Commercial Code. Plaintiff testified that on August 9, 1966, he gave…