Apton v. Barclays Bank, Ltd.

Action against an English bank to recover damages for alleged breach of contract and conversion. In six causes of action it is alleged that in the year 1938 defendant, with which plaintiff, a resident of Vienna, Austria, maintained a bank account, in violation of English law and in breach of the contract of deposit, and otherwise by conversion, divulged to the German invaders of Austria information with respect to plaintiff’s bank account and transmitted to the “ Reichsbank ” in Vienna, Austria, the balance of his bank account, equivalent to $21,087.18. In a seventh cause of action it is…