Shabluk v. Highland Park State Bank

This action was brought to recover damages for breach of contract to transmit and deposit rubles in a Russian bank. The plaintiff’s testimony tends to show that on the 15th of August, 1917, he went to the defendant bank to deposit $1,952; that he was induced by Mr. Gruenberg, a teller in the foreign exchange department, to purchase rubles with the money and deposit them in the Imperial Savings bank at Moscow, Russia; that he was assured by Mr. Gruenberg that his investment in rubles would return to him a profit of 100 per cent, at the close of the war; that the plaintiff expressed some…