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WASHINGTON LOAN & TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 8247, 8248, No. 8249.

134 F.2d 59 (1943)

WASHINGTON LOAN & TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES. RIGGS NAT. BANK OF WASHINGTON, D. C., v. SAME. COLUMBIA NAT. BANK OF WASHINGTON v. SAME.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided March 1, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. George P. Hoover, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Arthur Peter, Frank J. Hogan, Nelson T. Hartson, and Walter B. Guy, all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Bernard J. Long, Assistant United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., with whom Assistant Attorney General F. M. Shea and Mr. Edward M. Curran, United States Attorney, of Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and VINSON, Associate Justices.

GRONER, C. J.

This is an appeal from three judgments entered by the District Court on verdicts of a jury rendered by direction of the Court in a consolidated action against three Washington banks.

On January 5, 1939, the United States brought three actions at law to recover from appellants $84,880.83 paid to them by the United States upon their presentation of 1072 United States Treasury checks bearing forged endorsements. The complaint in each case was in...

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