National Park Bank v. Fourth National Bank
New York Court of Common Pleas
Demurrer to complaint. This action was brought by the Park National Bank of New York against the Fourth National Bank of New York, under circumstances precisely similar to those stated in reference to the preceding case of an action by the same plaintiff against the Ninth National Bank. The pleadings in both cases were in the same form. -, in support of the demurrer.
1Opinion of the CourtBarrett, J.
The facts admitted by this demurrer, if they do not add a fresh chapter to the category of crime, serve at least to illustrate the endless variety of its resources, and the almost unaccountable sinuosity of its paths.
A swindler buys from the Ridgely National Bank of Springfield, Illinois, a genuine bill of exchange for twenty dollars and twenty cents, on the National Park Bank of this city. His primary object in this transaction is to procure, as a basis for his deliberately planned fraud, one of the printed or engraved forms of such instruments in use by the Ridgely Bank, together with the…
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