Legal Opinion
Bradford Trust Company of Boston v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner and Smith, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided November 5, 1986No. 73, Docket 85-9045PublishedCited by 46 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge:
Appellant, the Bradford Trust Company of Boston (Bradford), the servicing agent for a group of mutual funds known as the Massachusetts Funds, liquidated two of its clients’ holdings and remitted the proceeds pursuant to what it thought were its clients’ instructions. It appeared later that appellant had been duped and the signatures on the instructions and documents forwarded were forgeries, even though they had allegedly been guaranteed by ap-pellee, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Smith (Merrill Lynch). After making whole the clients' accounts at a cost of 200,000…
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