Key legal question
Whether the defendant's conduct in obtaining the mortgage loan constituted fraud through arglist.
Extracted holding
The forged and internally consistent set of documents amounted to special deceptive manoeuvres; the bank was not lightly negligent, so arglist was present and the fraud conviction stood.
Extracted reasoning
A whole bundle of false or forged documents from apparently independent issuers created a coherent picture of solvency. In commercial dealings, parties may rely on apparently regular documents; the bank's failure to verify further did not amount to the basic lack of caution needed to exclude arglist.