PIEDMONT FED. SAV. & L. ASS'N v. HARTFORD ACC. & INDEM. CO.

No. 8526.

307 F.2d 310 (1962)

PIEDMONT FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION, Appellant, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 15, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin P. Shaw, Arlington, Va., and Stanley A. Owens, Manassas, Va., for appellant.

Charles H. Duff, Arlington, Va. (Norman F. Slenker, Arlington, Va., and Duff, Luther & Slenker on brief), for appellee.

Before SOPER and HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, District Judge.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The question is whether the savings & loan association suffered a loss by reason of forgeries of endorsements upon certain of its checks, within the meaning of an indemnity bond, or whether its loss was due to the failure of its security, as the District Court held.

Mary Thompson Miller and her husband purchased two residential lots in Fairfax County, Virginia. They paid no cash to their...

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