Sweeney v. Bismarck Hotel Co.

Full title: Frank Sweeney, Appellee, v. Bismarck Hotel Company et al., Appellants

Court: Appellate Court of Illinois, First District

Date published: May 22, 1940

305 Ill. App. 496 (Ill. App. Ct. 1940)

27 N.E.2d 674

Opinion

Gen. No. 41,000. (Abstract of Decision.)

Opinion filed May 22, 1940 Rehearing denied June 12, 1940

NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, § 339^_ — forged indorsement, evidence. Evidence supported judgment that payee's indorsement was forged on a check and was cashed by defendant for an agent of plaintiffs who had no authority to make the indorsement, plaintiff's firm having been employed to effect a tax reduction through solicitation of business by such agent.

_ See Callaghan's Illinois Digest, same topic and section number.

Appeal from Circuit Court of Cook county; Hon. MICHAEL FEINBERG, presiding.

Affirmed. Heard in third division, first district, this court at October term, 1939.

Castle, Williams McCarthy, for appellants;

Emmett J. McCarthy and Robert R. Hanley, of counsel;

Ehrlich Cohn and Mark T. Barnett, for appellee;

Aaron H. Cohn, of counsel.

Opinion by JUSTICE BURKE.

"Not to be published in full." Opinion filed May 22, 1940; rehearing denied June 12, 1940.