HARTFORD ACC. & INDEMNITY CO. v. GAINESVILLE NAT. BANK

No. 9955.

124 F.2d 97 (1941)

HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. et al. v. GAINESVILLE NAT. BANK IN GAINESVILLE, TEX., et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph J. Eckford and Paul T. McMahon, both of Dallas, Tex., for appellants.

David B. Trammell, of Fort Worth, Tex., and Robt. E. Cofer and John D. Cofer, both of Austin, Tex., for appellees.

Before HOLMES and McCORD, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

The appellants were the compensated sureties of the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas, Texas, and Kansas City, Missouri, and sue in this case as assignees of those banks to recover amounts which they had to pay the Fourth National Bank of Wichita, Kansas (hereafter called the Wichita Bank) because of forged indorsements upon certain checks originally cashed by the appellee banks or their predecessors.

These checks are five in number...

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