Case Name: Chase National Bank of the City of New York, Appellant, v. Ezra R. Battat et al., Individually and as Copartners Doing Business under the Name of Arbeedee Trading Company, Respondents, et al., Defendants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1947-05-29
Citations: 272 A.D.2d 805
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chase National Bank of the City of New York, Appellant, v. Ezra R. Battat et al., Individually and as Copartners Doing Business under the Name of Arbeedee Trading Company, Respondents, et al., Defendants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 272
Pages: 805–805

Head Matter:
(May 29, 1947.)
Chase National Bank of the City of New York, Appellant, v. Ezra R. Battat et al., Individually and as Copartners Doing Business under the Name of Arbeedee Trading Company, Respondents, et al., Defendants.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The complaint in this action, insofar as it purports to allege a cause of action against plaintiff's depositor, is insufficient in that it fails to allege ratification by the depositor of the bank's payment after receipt of the stop-payment order. (American Defense Society v. Sherman Nat. Bank, 225 N. Y. 506.)
Although section 213 of the Civil Practice Act is to be liberally construed the plaintiff bank should not be permitted to avail itself of the provisions of that section to sustain a defective complaint against its depositor where the result will be to involve the depositor in a lawsuit with a third party over a controversy in which the burden has been placed upon the depositor by reason of the bank's negligence in failing to comply with its depositor's instructions.
The order and the judgment should be affirmed, with costs to the respondents.