Ruehl v. Kardos

Finch, J.:

The complaint alleges that the plaintiff, an infant, deposited with the defendant, a stockbroker, certain moneys for the purchase and sale of stocks, which transactions resulted in a loss, but that the plaintiff repudiated the transactions and demanded the return of the money. By way of defense it is alleged, and admitted by the reply, that the plaintiff was an employee of a bank, and by means of a fictitious account in said bank and false and fraudulent checks and drafts feloniously withdrew from said bank the moneys which were deposited with the defendant. The Special Term held…