BANK OF GLEN BURNIE v. LOYOLA

No. 145, September Term, 1993.

336 Md. 331 (1994)

THE BANK OF GLEN BURNIE v. LOYOLA FEDERAL SAVINGS BANK.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Ayres, Jr. (John Michael Lis, both on brief), Glen Burnie, for petitioner.

Barkley Clark (C. Lamar Garren, Bruce T. Carton, Piper & Marbury, all on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ., and ALAN M. WILNER, Chief Judge of the Court of Special Appeals, Specially Assigned.


CHASANOW, Judge.

We are called upon in this case to decide the issue of who bears the loss, as between the collecting bank and the drawee bank, for an improperly paid check bearing both a forged drawer's signature and a forged indorsement (i.e., a "double forgery"). For the reasons set forth below, we hold that where a drawee bank pays on an instrument bearing both a forged drawer's signature and a forged indorsement, the drawee bank is liable for the loss.

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