Rochester City Bank v. . Elwood
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action upon a bond reciting that one Gold had been appointed assistant book-keeper of the Rochester City Bank, and conditioned that he' should “faithfully discharge the trust reposed in him as such assistant book-keeper.”
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Appeal from the Supreme Court. Action upon a bond reciting that one Gold had been appointed assistant book-keeper of the Rochester City Bank, and conditioned that he' should “faithfully discharge the trust reposed in him as such assistant book-keeper.” Breach, that Gold on the 5th of'January, 1853, “while in said plaintiff’s employment as such assistant 'bookkeeper, wrongfully took and appropriated to his own use of the moneys of the plaintiff in the plaintiff’s banking office, the sum of $1,000; and then and there made false and fraudulent .entries, in the books of the plaintiff for the…
1Opinion of the Court
'Wright, J.
The evidence would, have justified the jury in finding that about the 5th of January, 1853, Gold, who had acted as assistant book-keeper in the Rochester City Bank for two years previously, embezzled! the sum of $1,000 of its funds; and made false and fraudulent entries in the hooks of the bank, with the view and for the purpose of concealing from observation and detection such embezzlement, until he could place the property beyond1 the- reach of reclamation. In March,. 1851, the defendant Elwood obligated himself to the-plaintiff, as the surety of Gold, that the latter should-…
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