Hoppe v. Russo-Asiatic Bank
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Russo-Asiatic Bank, 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 1st day of July, 1921, 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 11th day of July, 1921, denying defendant’s motions to reopen the case, to be allowed to introduce further proof, and to amend the amended answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Greenbaum, J.:
The complaint sets up two causes of action. The first alleges the residence of the plaintiff in this State; that defendant is a Russian banking corporation; that a firm known as B. B. Hoppe & Co. was of the nature of a corporation or special partnership organized and existing under the laws of Russia; that on January 15, 1918, defendant at its Paris branch received from the Societé des Forces Motrices et Usines de l’Arve (hereinafter called the “ French company ”) a check on the National Bank of Credit in Paris for the sum of 559,000 francs, the proceeds of which it agreed to…
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