Sokoloff v. National City Bank

Finch, J.:

The complaint alleges that in June, 1917, the plaintiff paid to the defendant $30,225 in consideration of an agreement on defendant’s part to open in its Petrograd branch bank a deposit account in plaintiff’s favor for an equivalent amount in rubles; that said account was opened and a portion of the rubles withdrawn, but that the defendant failed to honor demands for withdrawals of the balance, for which balance the plaintiff demands judgment.

For a first defense the answer alleges that the defendant opened a branch in Petrograd, Russia, in January, 1917; that before doing any…