Deaton v. Montgomery Ward & Co.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

On the 8th day of July 1938, M. F. Cul'bertson was local manager of the Beaumont ■store of Montgomery Ward& Company, and Miss Blanche Smith the cashier. On that ■day, about 5 :30 p. m., a man went into the Montgomery Ward & Company store and cashed a check drawn by Humble Oil & Refining Company, payable to Albert S. Stanton; the man was not Stanton, and he cashed the check by forging thereon Stanton’s endorsement in the presence of Mr. Culbertson and Miss Smith. Payment on the check was stopped by the drawer, and a few days later it was taken up from Montgomery Ward &…