Cunningham v. First National Bank

Citations

• 219 Pa. 310
• 68 A. 731
• 1908 Pa. LEXIS 565

Syllabus

<p>Banks and banking — Checks—Forgery—Notice.</p> <p>Where a check is. paid on a forged indorsement and the drawer of the check after discovering the forgery delays for six weeks in notifying the bank thereof, the drawer' cannot recover from the bank the amount of the loss, if it appears that the bank in which the cheek was first deposited had failed in the meantime, and that if the bank upon which the check was drawn had had timely notice, it could have saved the loss by recourse to funds of the other bank.</p>