Davenport v. Prentice
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Annie O. B. Foster, as administratrix, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Richmond on the 25th day of June, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 25th day of June, 1907, denying the said defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Jenks, J.:
I think that this judgment must be reversed for an error in instructions to the jury. The appeal is by the administratrix o. t. a. of Augustus Prentice from a judgment entered on a verdict at Trial Term against the estate for $183,690. The plaintiff as the receiver of the Bank of Staten Island sues the officers and directors of the bank in a common-law action for negligence, whereby Ahlmann, the cashier and a director, found opportunity for thefts which brought the bauk to insolvency and the closing of its doors on December 31, 1903. Ahlmann killed himself on December 30, 1903.…
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