New York Court of Appeals
John E. Phillips, as Receiver v. the Mercantile National Bank of the City of New York, Respondent
January 16, 1894140 N.Y. 556
Summary
The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment, holding that a bank is bound by checks drawn by its authorized cashier even when the cashier uses the names of real persons as fictitious payees, and that the bank is estopped from denying the validity of those checks.