Myers v. Brown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, John Crosby Brown and others, copartners, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the cleric of the county of New York on the 20th day of June, 1910, upon the report of a referee.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
Plaintiff sues on an assigned claim of the First National Bank of Denver. Defendants are copartners under the name of Brown Brothers & Co., doing business as bankers in the city of New York.
In April, 1902, Mr: James J. Brown had an account with the First National Bank of Denver. At that time he was traveling in Japan. A few days before the nineteenth of April, John F. Campion, a friend of Mr. Brown’s at -Denver, received a cablegram signed “ Brown,” asking for the telegraphic transmissal of $5,000, and some days thereafter a second cablegram “nothing arrived investigate.” He took…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wright v. . DelafieldNew York Court of Appeals · 1862
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