Case Name: Luzern A. Williams, Respondent, v. First National Bank of Syracuse, Appellant
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1901-05-24
Citations: 167 N.Y. 594
Docket Number: 
Parties: Luzern A. Williams, Respondent, v. First National Bank of Syracuse, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: New York Reports
Volume: 167
Pages: 594–594

Head Matter:
Luzern A. Williams, Respondent, v. First National Bank of Syracuse, Appellant.
(Argued May 20, 1901;
decided May 24, 1901.)
Williams v. First Nat. Bank, 45 App. Div. 239, affirmed.
Appeal from a judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the fourth judicial department, entered December 6, 1899, affirming a judgment in favor of plaintiff entered upon a verdict and an ordór denying a motion for a new trial.
Jerome L. Cheney for appellant.
Ceylon H. Lewis for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The plaintiff sought to recover $2,000, the amount of his deposit in the defendant's bank. The defense was that the defendant had applied the deposit in payment of the plaintiff's past due note made by the plaintiff and others severally for the same amount. The question of fact was whether the plaintiff signed the note at the request of the bank made through its cashier for the accommodation of a railroad company, out of whose bonds in the custody of the bank it promised to pay the note.
The trial court submitted the case to the jury in a charge to which the defendant took no exception. The defendant made no request to charge. Had it requested such an instruction as it now insists is the law, namely, that the cashier, because of his personal interest in the transaction and. his agency for the railroad company, had no power to make for the bank the contract upon which the plaintiff relied, we suppose the court would have properly responded to it.
The exceptions which were taken in the case do not, we think, call for a reversal.
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
Parker, Ch. J. Gray, O'Brien, Martin, Landon, Cullen and Werner, JJ., concur.
Judgment affirmed.