Nassau Bank v. National Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The Nassau Bank, from judgments of ' the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of May, 1898, upon the report of a referee dismsssing the complaint, and dissolving an injunction heretofore granted in the action, and also from an order made at the Orange Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings bn the 10th day of May, 1898, directing that the…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, The Nassau Bank, from judgments of ' the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of May, 1898, upon the report of a referee dismsssing the complaint, and dissolving an injunction heretofore granted in the action, and also from an order made at the Orange Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings bn the 10th day of May, 1898, directing that the defendants enter separate judgments and tax separate bills of costs.
1Opinion of the Court
Cullen, J.:
The individual defendants as executors of Adderton were depositors with the defendant bank. One Grant B. Taylor, an attorney at law, was the counsel for the executors. He forged the names of the executors to certain checks, and by these checks obtained from the defendant bank the sum of $2,400. Afterwards, Taylor opened an account in the plaintiff bank, and deposited with it a draft for $6,000 drawn by the Columbus Trust Company on the Chase National Bank, and payable to the order of one Charles Curie. The name of Curie and that of Taylor were indorsed on the draft. Taylor then…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Justh v. . Nat. B'k of the CommonwealthNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
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