Van Norman v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Because Mrs. Van Norman was authorized to endorse checks with Jones' name for one purpose does not mean that she had unlimited power to sign his name for other purposes. It is clear that Mrs. Van Norman's authority to endorse Walter Jones' name was limited to endorsing checks payable to Jones in order to deposit those checks into Jones' New York bank account. Mrs. Van Norman did not have authority to endorse checks with Jones' name in order to deposit those checks into her personal account at a different bank, or to cash those checks at any bank. Thus, her conduct in signing Jones' name to achieve such a purpose was unauthorized. Under the holding in Levy , her unauthorized signature was the same as a forgery for purposes of an action for conversion instituted against First Pennsylvania Bank.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Van Norman

2. “(a) Acts constituting conversion. — An instrument is converted when: (1) a drawee to whom it is delivered for acceptance refuses to return it on demand; (2) any person to whom it is delivered for payment refuses on demand either to pay or to return it; or (3) it is paid on a forged indorsement.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Van Norman

3. “without prejudice to the right of the Van Normans to renew their request for a jury trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jones v. Van Norman