Coffin v. Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

The plaintiffs in this assumpsit action sought to recover from the defendant bank the amount of ten checks totalling |75,948.62 drawn by certain predecessor partnerships (in which certain of the plaintiffs were partners) on an account in the defendant bank, on which checks the payees’ names were forged by one Neil J. Sullivan. At the time of these events Sullivan was a partner in the firms on whose behalf the checks were drawn. The checks were deposited by Sullivan in his personal account which was also in the defendant bank. This matter came on for trial and the…