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PUTNAM LADDER CO. v. HANOVER

74 N.Y.2d 340 (1989)

Putnam Rolling Ladder Co., Inc., Appellant, v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided October 19, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Leonard for appellant.

Robin J. Arzt and Robert M. Rosenblith for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.

KAYE, J.

This dispute concerns whether plaintiff customer or defendant bank should bear the loss for a series of checks forged by plaintiff's bookkeeper and cashed by the bank. The result turns on the Uniform Commercial Code provisions for allocating the burden of proof of due care between a bank and its customer when each charges the other with negligence.

In December 1979, Putnam Rolling Ladder Company...

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