Court Opinion

ID: 9834300
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:28:09.967758+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:24:12.648849
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
Appellant in its motion for rehearing complains of our failure to find, as a matter of fact, that the check in controversy was a forgery. We think our findings cover this, but in order that there may be no misunderstanding, we will state that the record shows that the check in controversy was forged by a party representing himself to be A. D. Thomas, and that the indorsement of A. D. Thomas was also forged. The record further shows that when the appellee, Jacobs, received and cashed said check he had no information that same was a forgery, or that it was not a good check and properly indorsed.
The record further shows that the check, when it was sent to the Exchange National Bank of Shreveport, La., on which bank same was drawn, was paid by said bank and said bank charged same against the account of 'the Latex Drilling Company, Inc., against which same had been drawn; and that thereafter the Shreveport bank took up said check and delivered same to A. C. Benson, president of Latex Drilling Company, for the purpose of his taking same to Corsicana to see if he could make collection; and thereafter the check was returned to the Shreveport bank, and was by said bank delivered to appellant at the time appellant reimbursed the Shreveport bank. The record is not clear as to whether the Shreveport bank itself returned the check to the Corsicana bank, but the record does show that the Shreveport bank notified the Corsicana bank that the check was a forgery and that appellee was, about 30 or 60 days after the check was paid by the Shreveport bank, notified by the Cor-sicana bank that the check was a forgery.
We took into consideration all of these facts in writing the original opinion, and, under the facts in this record, we are of the opinion that the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed. We have carefully read appellant’s motion for rehearing and the authorities cited by it, and said motion is overruled.