Cechanowicz v. Highland Park State Bank

It is the claim of the plaintiff, a native of Russia but a naturalized American citizen, a customer of defendant, that he was approached by Mr. Gruenberg, a teller of defendant working in the *39foreign exchange department, with the suggestion that money could be made by the purchase of Russian rubles and depositing them in a Russian bank. This was in October, 1917, and rubles were worth 16 cents, having then fallen from 52 cents to that figure. Plaintiff was somewhat dubious about the situation in Russia but claims that Mr. Gruenberg assured him that the money could be sent and that the book…