Hansen v. Brooklyn Trust Co.

The action was to recover, on the theory of conversion, the amount of a cheek alleged to have been paid by the Brooklyn Trust Company on an alleged forged indorsement of Herman Martinjus Hansen, who died two days after the cheek was alleged to have been indorsed by him, it being claimed by the plaintiff that the decedent was in a state of coma and incapable of writing or understanding the nature of his act at the time the check was said to have been indorsed by him. On the trial before the court, without a jury, it was held that the *844indorsement was genuine. The weight and sufficiency of the…