International Firearms Co. v. Kingston Trust Co.

The plaintiff is a Canadian corporation and is the successor in interest to the Sportmen’s Wholesale Supply, the payee of a check drawn by the defendant Kingston Trust Company on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for $1,000. Payment was stopped by the defendant; and this action is for the recovery of the amount of the check. The court at Special Term, after a trial, has granted judgment for defendant dismissing the complaint.

The check was bought from the defendant bank by Martin B. Retting, one of defendant’s depositors, and made out in the name of the plaintiff’s predecessor as payee, for…