BANKS, Justice, for the Court:
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This case presents the question of whether a bank is liable where it accepts for deposit to an attorney's trust account, on the attorney's endorsement, checks made payable to an estate, in care of, or "c/o", the attorney where the attorney is in fact the conservator of the estate and where the attorney subsequently misappropriates proceeds from the account including the proceeds of the checks in question. We hold that, without...
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