Legal Opinion
Society National Bank of Cleveland v. Capital National Bank
Ohio Court of Appeals
Decided April 13, 1972No. 31413PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWasseuman, C. J.
This is an appeal from an action to recover the amount of plaintiff’s cashier’s checks, totaling $4,500 and paid by plaintiff appellee bank to defendant appellant banks over a payee’s forged indorsement.
The facts and evidence are stipulated as follows:
In October 1964, Fred Rzepka, a customer of Society National Bank of Cleveland (hereinafter Society) drew two cheeks totaling $4,500 on Society payable to the ABS Company and delivered them to William Mishler, a selling-agent of the payee company. Mishler forged the payee’s indorsements on the two checks, signed his own name, and obtained from…
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