Legal Opinion
Gravenhorst v. . Zimmerman
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 1, 1923PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hisco ok, Ch. J.
This action involves a transaction in foreign exchange and leads to the practical question who shall bear the loss springing out of that transaction.
On March 31, 1917, the plaintiff’s assignor paid to the defendants the sum of $8,500 in consideration of which they agreed to make a wireless transfer of 47,222 marks to the account of a designated payee at a designated bank in Berlin. Owing to the war into which we were then about to enter our government at this date had taken control of wireless stations, and mail communications between this country and Germany were soon…
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