Security Trust Co. v. Wells, Fargo & Co. Express
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Wells, Fargo & Company Express; from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 18th day of November, 1902, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of November, 1902, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
On July 6, 1899, one Rachel G. Rice deposited with the plaintiff, a trust company; $1,000 and left her genuine signature with one of *428its officers or agents. On July 10, 1899, a check purporting to be drawn on this fund by her tó the order of "John Rice was paid by the plaintiff, and a similar one for a like sum the fifteenth of that' month, both of which it was subsequently discovered were forgeries.
On July 20, 1899, the plaintiff received a letter dated that day at Geneseo,' N. Y., apparently signed by her, which directed the respondent to send to her at Geneseo $500 in currency,…
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