UNITED STATES v. UNION PLANTERS NAT. BANK & TRUST CO.

Nos. 12669, 12670.

175 F.2d 684 (1949)

UNITED STATES v. UNION PLANTERS NAT. BANK & TRUST CO. et al. UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE IN MEMPHIS et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

June 29, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester L. Sumners, U. S. Atty., Oxford Miss., Paul A. Sweeney, Attorney, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Hamilton E. Little, Memphis, Tenn., C. R. Bolton, Tupelo, Miss., for appellees.

Before HUTCHESON, SIBLEY and McCORD, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Suing to recover on guaranties of prior endorsements, the United States brought these suits against banks which had taken checks drawn on the Treasurer of the United States and, endorsing them, "All prior endorsements guaranteed", had presented them for, and received, payment.

The claims were that the signatures and endorsements on the checks were not the genuine signatures of the payees but were forgeries, and the defendants, when...

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