Sippell v. Salmowitz

When defendants discovered that the silk had been obtained on a forged order they took immediate steps to ascertain the identity of the writer and of the man who presented it. Relative to the one they were told by the firm whose name appeared on the order of the man who had formerly been in their employ and who had access to their stationery, and to the other they received from their employee who delivered the silk a description of the man who waited on the street to receive it. These lines of information converged on the plaintiff, and when accused he declared that in a half hour he could…