Merkel v. Lazard
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the defendants, Alexander Lazard and others, for a new trial upon a ease containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance upon the Arerdict of a jury in favor of the plaintiff, rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the Mew York Trial Term in January, 1906.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
o This ease comes before the court on exceptions ordered to be here heard in the first instance. The defendants are bankers and brokers doing business in the city of Mew York under the name of Lazard Freres. For many years prior to the month of April, 1905, it had in its employ as a clerk, one Krumnow, whose duties were to attend to the posting of books of account relating to business between the firm and its foreign correspondents. • Tie was not authorized to buy *26or sell stocks or bonds for customers of the firm, or to deal with them in regard to such subjects. Nor was he…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Walsh v. . Hartford Fire Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1878
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