Wolfin v. Security Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Security Bank of New York, from a determination and order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of June, 1915, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Ninth District, in favor of the plaintiff, rendered after a trial before the court without a juiy, with notice of an intention to bring up for review the original…
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Appeal by the defendant, The Security Bank of New York, from a determination and order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of June, 1915, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, Ninth District, in favor of the plaintiff, rendered after a trial before the court without a juiy, with notice of an intention to bring up for review the original judgment of the Municipal Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
Plaintiff, claiming as owner of a check indorsed to his order, upon which his signature was forged, sues defendant into *520whose hands the check subsequently came, and who collected the amount thereof from the bank upon which it was drawn. The facts are as follows: One Robert M. Bergman drew his check upon the Twenty-third Ward Bank for $450, payable to the order of Samuel Litt. He then caused Litt to indorse the check payable to the order of Jacob Wolfin, this plaintiff, and delivered the check thus indorsed to Litt with instructions to deliver the same to Wolfin, which Litt promised…
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