Legal Opinion
Albers v. Suisse
City of New York Municipal Court
Decided October 10, 1946PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
Plaintiff sues the defendant bank for its failure to return to him certain bonds which he had entrusted to it for safekeeping. The defendant denying liability, relies upón a letter signed by the plaintiff directing it to transfer the bonds to the account of a third party. The plaintiff seeks to avoid the effect of this letter by asserting that it was signed by him in circumstances which made it a nullity; that the defendant knew those circumstances, acted in disregard of them, and thereby acted in disregard of its obligations to him.
*231Plaintiff was a Viennese merchant. In 1937 he deposited with…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- National Bank v. GrahamSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
- Ouderkirk v. Central National BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
- Manhattan Bank of Memphis v. WalkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Pattison v. . Syracuse National BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
- Wood & Selick, Inc. v. Compagnie Generale TransatlantiqueCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1930
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