OAK CLIFF BANK & TRUST CO. v. AETNA CASUALTY & SUR. CO.

No. 17181.

436 S.W.2d 165 (1968)

OAK CLIFF BANK & TRUST COMPANY, Appellant, v. The AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. McGuire, of Akin, Vial, Hamilton, Koch & Tubb, Dallas, for appellant.

Lawrence R. Maxwell, Jr., of Bailey, Williams, Weber & Allums, Dallas, for appellee.


BATEMAN, Justice.

The question here is whether the drawee or the drawer shall bear the loss when a forged check is paid by the drawee bank. The appellant Oak Cliff Bank & Trust Company, herein sometimes called "the Bank," paid approximately forty checks aggregating $689.47 bearing the printed signature of The International Union United Automobile Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America UAW, Local 732, herein called "the Union," and what purported...

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