J. B. Kepner Co. v. Hutton
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The J. B. Kepner Company, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 30th day of December, 1915, upon the decision of the court after a trial before the court without a jury.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This action is to recover the amount of certain checks upon the banking account of plaintiff paid out to and received by defendants by J. B. Kepner, a former president of plaintiff, in payment of a personal indebtedness under circumstances that, as plaintiff claims, should have warned defendants that said Kepner was unlawfully using the corporation’s funds without authority.
It appears that prior to April 10, 1912, said J. B. Kepner carried on business individually as a cotton converter and as sales agent for certain cotton mills. In 1912 he caused the plaintiff corporation to be…
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