Crane v. Postal Telegraph Cable Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendants from a judgment of tbe Supreme Court of tbe District of Columbia in an action to recover funds embezzled by plaintiff’s employee.
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Hearing on an appeal by tbe defendants from a judgment of tbe Supreme Court of tbe District of Columbia in an action to recover funds embezzled by plaintiff’s employee. The Court in the opinion stated tbe facts as follows: The appellants, Augustus Crane, Albion K. Parris, and Eugene E. Thompson, copartners, trading as Crane, Parris, & Company, were defendants, and the appellee, Postal Telegraph Cable Company, plaintiff in the trial court; and we refer to them as snch in this opinion. Tbe action was for the recovery of $7,746.46, and there was a directed verdict for tbe plaintiff in tbe snm of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smyth
Does the testimony tend to show (a) that the cashier was authorized to indorse the checks for the purpose of receiving the money thereon; and, if not (b) that the money thus received by him went to the benefit of the plaintiff % These are the two questions upon which the determination of the case turns.
If reasonable men would differ as to the inferences which should be drawn from the testimony bearing upon either of those questions, and consequently as to the answer which should be given, then the question with respect to which the dispute would arise should have been given to the jury for…
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