Redo Y Cia v. First National Bank

—Plaintiff instituted this action to recover $14,200 paid by it to the defendant bank for two foreign bills of exchange drawn by the defendant on the Deutsche Bank of Hamburg, Germany, each being for 40,000 marks.

The plaintiff firm was engaged in the sugar business in Mexico and maintained an office in the city of Los Angeles. In the conduct of its business plaintiff maintained an account with Bartning Gebruder of Hamburg, Germany. On March 22, 1917, plaintiff’s Los Angeles manager inquired of the defendant bank the exchange rate on a draft for 40.000 German marks. The defendant bank…