Goeske v. Taylor

When the plaintiff on March 13, 1916, went to the Rochester office of the defendant, she told an employee of the defendant that she wanted to send $300 to her mother in Germany. Whatever she may have then had in mind as to the method to be pursued in transmitting the money, she in fact then bought and paid for a negotiable foreign check for 1,618.15 marks drawn by the defendant to the order of Mary Eder, plaintiff’s mother, on the Dresdner Bank, at Munich, Germany. (Neg. Inst. Law, §§ 210-215; Amsinck v. Rogers, 189 N. Y. 252.) A similar foreign check for 2,010.70 marks was purchased from the…