Legal Opinion
Husker News Co. v. Mahaska State Bank
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided September 19, 1990No. 89-808PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEUMAN, Justice.
The question on this appeal is whether the trial court erred as a matter of law when it refused to apply the “discovery rule” to a conversion action based on a forged endorsement under section 554.3419 of the Iowa Uniform Commercial Code. Finding no error, we affirm.
I. Plaintiff Husker News Company is a wholesale distributor of magazines and paperback books. One of its employees, Walter Hopf, collected payments from customers, forged Husker’s endorsement on the checks, and deposited the funds in his personal account. Because the checks were routed to the various banks upon…
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