Mazukiewicz v. Hanover National Bank

Having purchased from the defendant as drawer in 1914 two foreign drafts or bills of exchange aggregating 15,000 rubles the plaintiff duly presented them for payment to the drawee in Lomza, Russia, but payment was refused. No notice of dishonor of either draft was given to the defendant. The plaintiff was detained in Russia by the war and subsequently by lack of funds but he returned to New York in 1921 and in April of that year presented the original drafts to the defendant. He then asked for the money which he had paid for them but this was refused. The present action was then begun to…