Common School District Number 61 v. Twin Falls Bank & Trust Co.

SUTPHEN, District Judge.

On or about the fourteenth day of September, 1928, there was presented to appellant bank a forged order purporting to have been drawn by the respondent school district, in the sum of $250, bearing the purported signatures of the chairman and clerk of said school district and the counter signature of the county superintendent of public instruction. Upon the back of said order appeared two indorsements: that of “Bessie Lakey,” the payee, a fictitious person, and that of “C. Pond, Y. L.” The “C. Pond” representing Charlotte Pond, the then county superintendent, and the…