Employers' Liability Assurance Corp. v. Hudson River Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtRhodes, J.
The question for determination is whether the defendant in the transactions hereafter recounted was chargeable with knowledge that certain checks drawn by the Columbia county treasurer on county funds and deposited with the defendant by him in his personal account were being misappropriated and converted by him.
The undisputed essential facts are brief; they are set out at length in the opinion of the court below reported in 160 Miscellaneous Reports, 521.
Clyde H. DeWitt was county treasurer of Columbia county from January 1,1928, to December 31,1930, and was vice-president of the Germantown…
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