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IMPORTANT RULING

MANAGER'S NEGLIGENCE IN CHEQUE CASE

COURT OF APPEAL

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On demand

The case was enncerned with a

On Paris cheque which was altered by a On demand. fraudulent clerk from $2,500 to $12,500. During the hearing it was argued that E. A. Barbour, Ltd., (respondents) had not shown sufficient care in the filling up of the cheque, and for the Bank': (the appellants) it was argued that the responsibility lay upon them of discovering what was an apparent fraud.

The appeal was heard by Mr. Justice Deane (the presiding judge). Mr. Justice Burton and Mr. Justice Stevens..

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'Mr. Justice. Deane said that on inspection of the documents there demand

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ordinary man who wished to pre-On demand vent forgery would leave between 30 day's sight (private his words in any document, and paper) certainly such prudent man filling in a cheque in On demand Singapore would, if he thought of Gold Leaf, 100 fine

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when writing the word "two", The Chinese Sub. Cain.. 294 dis. observation of either of the first Hong Kong Sub. Coin Par. two precautions would almost cer tainly have prevented the fraud.

"Precautions Neglected,"

Every precaution was neglected and complete indiference was shown by the manager with respect to the duty he owed to the bank. Nor could his Lordship agree with the argument put forward on be-l half of the respondents that unless: the spaces were so wide that they could not escape the manager's | notice and the negligence so gross as to amount to a palpable invita- tion to fraud the respondents should be excused. The test to be applied was did the manager, in signing, leave sufficient space, as to make a fraud easy and, in the circumstances of this case, did that amount to negligence? In his Lordship's opinion it did, and the appellants could fairly say that they were deceived by the negligent way in which the manager signed the cheque, and that therefore the respondents could not set up against them the invalidity of aj document which they were induced to accept by the negligence of the respondents' servant.

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JUNK MURDER

JUNK FOKI RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE

That the forgery was the natural. and direct consequence of the negligence was undoubted. The choque appeared to have been pre- pared with the object of forgery in view, and the forgery was carri ed out as a natural result when it was negligently signed. No ar

A verdict of "guilty" was returned tificial means were necessary, nor by the jury yesterday afternoon at the was it necessary to alter a single Criminal Sessions against Chau Kau, letter to perpetrate the fraud. All the Chinese boat man charged with the that had to be done was to write murder of two sampan girls on March the necessary letters and figures 18.

in the blank spaces. If a ware- His Lordship (Mr. Justice J. R. houseman neglected to take the Wond) asked the jury if they wished precaution to lock his warehouse to add a rider to their verdiet, and on and goods were stolen the theft receiving a reply in the negative, sen-

a natural and direct consetence of death was passed. quence of his negligence in failing quite ammoved.

Prisoner received his death sentence

Was

to lock the door of his warehouse, and similarly in this case the door

Drawing a cart containing a live was left open to forgery, facility pig, a horse bolted over the quay was given for its perpetration, and wall at Poole, Dorset, and both it the Forgery was 3 direct and and the pig were drowned, the natural result of that facility.

driver being injured.

For those reasona, his Lordship thought that the judgment of the court below should be set aside and that judgment should be enter-

ed for appellants with costs in the AGAINST SNOBBERY

Court of Appeal and in the Court below.

Mr. Justice Stevens, in allowing the appeal, said that he was of the opinion that the matter for con sideration was not so much the de gree of carelessness or want of vigilance exhibited by the drawer, as the state of the cheque when drawn. If in fact it was drawn in such a manner as to render dis- honest alteration easy, then the drawer was guilty of a breach of his positive duty to the bank, and the banker ought not to be, held responsible for the result of any such alteration.

A Dissenting View. Mr. Justice Burton thought the appeal should be dismissed. His Lordship said the duty of a cus- tomer of a bank was to draw his cheques as to guard against the possibility of tampering in a way which the ordinary drawer can be reasonably expected to foresee. It was pessible that to forgers of suffi cient skill there were many cheques apparently drawn with due care which were capable of fraudulent alteration. But the duty of the customer was to give no facility; not to give any conceivable oppor- tunity. His Lordship did not think that the cheque was so drawn originally 38 "to facilitate or al- most invite"" the alteration which vas in fact made.

SENATOR TELLS STUDENTS DEMOCRACY IS NOBLER

D

R. ROYAL S. COPE

LAND, Senator from New York, deviated from his regular commence- ment address to the graduating class of Davis and Elkins Col lege, at Elkins, West Virginia,

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SENATOR ROYAL & COPELAND bobanographer-marry hter MENTER BLEV

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