National Bank of New Zealand Ltd v Walpole and Patterson Ltd - [1975] 2 NZLR 7

Bankers and banking — General rights and obligations — Forged cheque cashed by bank — Customer's action against bank form of pleading — Defence of negligence of customer limited to cases where negligence is in or immediately connected with the drawing of the forged cheque — Customer under no duty to bank to exercise care in his general business to prevent forgery.