Harris v. Blitzstein

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

The action was in assumpsit. The gist of the plaintiff’s claim, as averred in his statement, was that the defendants, who were private bankers, had agreed, in consideration of the payment to them by the plaintiff of $535, on September 14, 1917, to cause to be credited to his account in the Russian Government Bank in the City of Moscow, within eight weeks thereafter, the sum of three thousand rubles; and that this had not been done. The proof on the trial, in the shape of incontrovertible documentary evidence, was that the plaintiff on that date bought from the defendants…