Hromaha v. First National Bank

Citations

• 50 Pa. Super. 466
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 76

Syllabus

<p>Banks and banking — Negligence—Fraud of agent — Collecting moneys from foreign lands.</p> <p>Where a bank, in order to secure the patronage of a foreign non-English speaking people in the community, establishes a department in charge of an employee who is able to converse with such people in their own language, and who is authorized by the bank to collect moneys from foreign lands, the bank will be liable to a man and wife who turned over to the head of this department the evidence of their ownership of a fund in a foreign bank, if it appears that the fund in question was actually paid over by the foreign bank to the bank in question, and that the employee of the latter, through his position, and his ability alone to talk with the owners of the money, and through fraudulent combination with a confederate, secured the payment of the money to himself, and embezzled it.</p>