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Show Utah Copper Sues on Check Charge The Utah Copper company filed suit in the federal vourt against the Bingham Bing-ham State bunk to recover $34fi2.G3 of the Copper company's funds alleged alleg-ed to have been paid out by the bank on fictitious checks issued in the name of the company by Walter D. Sharp, Jr. Sharp is said to have made false entries in the accounts whereby he caused to be manipulated and padded the semi monthly payrolss. He is then, according to the complaint, declared de-clared to have induced J. D. Schilling, mine superintendent, to execute the checks in the name of the company in favor of certain employees who at the time were not working for the company. These checks Sharp is alleged to have taken from the office of the chief mine clerk and passed at different dif-ferent Salt Lake institutions, representing repre-senting himself to be the persons to whom the chocks were made out. The complaint is made against the Bingham Bing-ham State bank for charging these checks to the account of the plaintiff without authority of the latter when they were returned by the establishments establish-ments on which they were originally passed. The , fraud is said to have been discovered about the middle of May, 1924. Repeated demands have been made on the bank, the complaint states, to reimburse for the amount of the checks without compliance on the part of the defendant. |