Skuratowicz v. Highland Park State Bank

Plaintiff went to trial with the defendant on the issue as to whether he placed the sum of $1,280 in the hands of defendant on July 28, 1916, under its promise to deposit for him 4,000 Russian rubles in the Imperial Russian Savings Bank at Egumieu, and that if it failed to deliver to plaintiff a savings book with a credit of 4,000 rubles of that bank within three months it would return to him the $1,280.

Plaintiff shows that defendant made him such a promise, but never delivered to him the savings book nor returned to him the $1,280. The defendant denied, that it made such an agreement. The…