Sokoloff v. National City Bank

As alleged in his complaint the plaintiff on or about June 27, 1917, in New York-paid to the defendant bank $30,225 *254upon its agreement to open an account with him in its Petrograd branch in Russia and to repay him there in rubles at the rate of twenty-three and one-quarter cents per ruble in such sums and at such times as he might by written order demand. Such an account was in fact opened and the plaintiff drew against it from time to time some 8,000 rubles before November 2, 1917. On or about that date the plaintiff directed the branch bank in writing to transfer 120,000 rubles to ■ another…