Court Opinion

ID: 9586544
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:12:34.91796+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:42.570100
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*533Eberhardt, Judge,
concurring. Because of the rule that if there is any evidence to support the finding we have no power to set it aside on the general grounds, I must concur. An examination of the record in Langdale v. Citizens Bank of Savannah, 121 Ga. 105 (48 SE 708), wherein repose the original documents carrying the admittedly genuine and the questioned signatures, discloses that there are dissimilarities in the genuine and the questioned signatures which are greater, more obvious and more numerous than are to be found in the signatures in this record. In that case it appears that the teller did not, when taking the check (or receipt) for withdrawal of funds, make a comparison of the signature with the one held in the bank files, while here it was done and, additionally, identification was obtained through the production of two credit cards issued to the depositor. Affirming a jury verdict in favor of the bank in Langdale the court observed that "it is obvious that the signatures bear a general similarity to each other,” and thus that there "seems to have been absolutely nothing to put the teller on inquiry as to the genuineness” of the signature, and "under these circumstances we can not hold that it was his duty to go further and compare his signature with that of the plaintiff on file with the bank.” The bank had exercised ordinary care, and the depositor was bound by the terms of the bank regulation— which was exactly the same as the regulation here involved. But in Langdale the jury had found for the bank, thus having found that it exercised ordinary care in permitting the withdrawal. Here the factfinder has found against the bank, and thus has found that it did not exercise ordinary care. We can not disturb the finding, however much it may appear to us that the evidence showing exercise of ordinary care was stronger here than it was in Lang-dale, for we deal only with the general grounds. It can not be said that the evidence here demanded a contrary finding, for there are some dissimilarities in the signatures and there is thus some evidence to support the finding made. Adler v. Adler, 207 Ga. 394, 405 (61 SE2d 824).