E. Moch Co. v. Security Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The Security Bank of New York, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 22d day of May, 1916, 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 26th day of May, 1916, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
The plaintiff is a business corporation, duly organized under the laws of the State of New York in the year 1900, engaged in manufacturing and selling ostrich feathers. In the course of its business, between the 7th day of January, 1907, and the 7th day of October, 1909, it received from different' customers twenty checks, payable to its order, which its president, Eugene *844Moch, without authority, appropriated to his own use by indorsing in his own handwriting thereon the corporate name of the plaintiff and his name underneath the same, and by depositing them to the credit of his…
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