104 N.Y.S. 1045 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1907
The plaintiff had an account with the defendant. The complaint contains two counts. The first is to recover the sum of $843.09, paid by- the defendant to' an employee of the plaintiff On a check drawn by one Budolph Oelsner upon the National Shoe and Leather Bank, which plaintiff alleges was indorsed by him “for the purpose of depositing said check to the credit of ” his account, but which the defendant wrongfully and negligently paid in cash,to One Murmann, -Iiis messenger. And the second is to recover the-sum of $2,174.25, the amount of-a check drawn by the same party upon the same bank, and alleged to -have been indorsed by plaintiff for the purpose of depositing said. check to the credit- of his account, but which the defendant likewise wrongfully arid negligently paid to his said messenger. The defendant, in its -answer, admits the status of the parties, and that it did not deposit the jiroeeeds of the check to the credit of plaintiff’s account, but it denies' the other material allegations of the complaint. For a separate defense to each of the causes of action the defendant separately further alleges that the messenger who presented the checks to it .was plaintiff’s cashier; that the checks were payable to the order of plaintiff, and indorsed by him and by his cashier, who requested the defendant to pay the checks in cash, and' that it complied with'such request. The demurrer to each separate defense is upon the ground that it • is insufficient in law upon the face thereof. It is-to'be inferred from the points for the' appellant, that the theory of the, deinurrer was that the defendant .had, by the denials contained in its answer, put in issue the charge that the moneys were' negligently paid to plain
It follows, therefore, that the interlocutory judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Patterson, P. J., McLaughlin, Houghton and Scott, JJ\, concurred.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.