Legal Opinion
Fundacion Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas-Sofia Imber v. CBI-TDB Union Bancaire Privee
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 18, 1998No. 729, Docket 98-7516PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Per curiam
In May of 1993, an account holder at Defendant CBI-TDB Union Bancaire Privée (“UBP”) deposited into his UBP account a check which was drawn on the account of Fundación Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (“the Museum”) and which bore the forged signature of the Museum’s director. Alleging causes of action sounding in conversion and in money had and received, the Museum now seeks to recover the amount of the forged check from UBP.
After a bench trial in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Leisure, J.), the district court ruled in favor of UBP on the ground…
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