Land Title Bank & Trust Co. v. Cheltenham National Bank

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

One Vera Keller was the owner of a property on Shawnee Street in Philadelphia. < Without her knowl edge or authority one Bennewitt, who was a real estate broker, applied to Willow Highlands Company for a loan of $8,000 on that property. The loan was approved and application made by the lending company to plaintiff, the Land Title Bank & Trust Company, for title insurance guaranteeing the lien of the mortgage. At the settlement in plaintiff’s office Vera Keller did not appear. Bennewitt, representing that she was merely his “strawman”, produced a bond and…