Schochet v. Public National Bank

The trial judge was warranted in believing on the evidence that on August 14, 1917, plaintiff’s assignor (hereinafter called plaintiff) deposited with the defendant for the purpose of transmitting the equivalent in the foreign money to his family in Russia, $440; that defendant agreed to return to plaintiff a bank book evidencing the deposit abroad; that defendant’s officer told plaintiff the book would be returned in three months or “ after three months; ” and that plaintiff called at the expiration of that time and was told that the bank could not “ get any answer from over there because…