United States Seventh Circuit

In a suit arising from an employee's embezzlement via altering and depositing checks in an account with defendant bank, summary judgment for defendant on claims of conversion is affirmed where plaintiff, as a party contracting with the employer, lacked any property interest in checks made out to the employer, even though the checks represented funds that would ultimately be owed to plaintiff.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/16/2008
• Decided 09/11/2008
• Published 09/11/2008

Judges

• WOOD, Circuit Judge., Before EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge, and WOOD and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William A. Chittenden, III, Elizabeth G. Doolin, Chittenden, Murday & Novotny, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Todd A. Rowden (argued), Scott P. Clair, Timothy Binetti, Thompson Coburn LLP, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.