Raicher v. National Bank of Commerce

Plaintiff, appellant here, seeks to recover certain sums of money paid by him to the respondent bank for three thousand rubles to be transmitted to Russia. There was a verdict and judgment for defendant on both counts of the petition. Plaintiff appeals.

The trial petition alleges that defendant bank on November 21, 1917, in consideration of $234.25 in United States currency paid to the bank by plaintiff, agreed to remit to Mrs. Raicher at Shumsk, Russia, one thousand rubles, and that if not so delivered the defendant would refund to plaintiff the sum of $234.25 so paid over to it; that…