Morrison v. Chapman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, John Morrison, from a judgment of the'Supreme Court in his own favor, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 10th day of October, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court after a trial at the New York Trial Term, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 5th day of April, 1910, denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
This is an action against a firm of stockbrokers by a customer for a balance claimed to be due upon account, and the question involved is whether cr not the plaintiff is entitled to be credited as for money paid with the amount of two checks delivered to the manager of defendants’ branch office and collected by him through forged indorsements of defendants’ name. Defendants’ principal office is in lower Broadway in the city of New York. At the time of the transactions out of which this controversy has arisen they maintained several branch offices in the city of New York one of which…
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