Legal Opinion
Farnum v. Connecticut Bank & Trust Co.
Connecticut Superior Court
Decided December 7, 1960No. File 11454PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCotter, J.
The plaintiff, a retired professor seventy-six years of age, sues to recover securities, or their value, which he claims to have placed in a safe deposit box.
He rented the box from the defendant at its Willimantic branch. General Statutes § 36-57 (s). He purchased negotiable bonds valued at approximately $8400, represented by five certificates, on October 18, 1957, from Wood, Strathers and Company of New York and purportedly received them in a large manila envelope by registered mail, probably on October 19, a Saturday. He opened the envelope at that time, examined the certificates and then…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Murray v. Paramount Petroleum Products Co., Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1924
- Frissell v. John W. Rogers, Inc.Supreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Morgan v. . BankSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925
- Silva v. City of HartfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1954
- Douglass v. HartSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1925
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3Cited by3 opinions
- O'MALLEY v. Putnam Safe Deposit Vaults, Inc.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1983
- Bek v. Shawmut Bank Connecticut, N.A., No. Cv94 031 45 32s (May 16, 1996)Connecticut Superior Court · 1996
- MARTIN, LUCAS & CHIOFFI, LLP v. Bank of AmericaDistrict Court, D. Connecticut · 2010