Jones v. Van Norman

I respectfully dissent. I believe appellant converted the instruments payable to appellee Walter Jones because Mrs. Van Norman’s endorsement of Walter Jones’s name was unauthorized and, therefore, a forgery under Section 3-419(a) of the Uniform Commercial Code as adopted by our Legislature. 13 Pa.C.S. § 3419(a). On this difficult issue of first impression in Pennsylvania, the majority’s analysis seems to me to misconstrue our agency law, and to place an inappropriate emphasis on form over substance. Moreover, employment of the majority’s analysis leads to different results in two situations…