Geitelsohn v. Citizens' Savings Bank

Yan Wyck, Oh. J.

The plaintiff depositor sues the savings bank to recover the balance of his deposit with the bank, which defends on the ground that it had paid such deposit to a person who had presented the pass-book and satisfactorily had answered all of the questions required by the rules of the bank, and the information given by plaintiff when he opened the account. The plaintiff, on a former trial of this case, obtained judgment on a verdict in his favor, which judgment met reversal at Appellate Term of the Supreme Court and the learned justice then writing succinctly and clearly states…