Lid, for the recovery of Harbin $485,182.73, said to represent the balance of two deposits made at Harbin in the year 1923, with interest from June 25, 1927, Judgment was given in favour of the Harbin Electric Joint Stock Ca., Ltd,, for $496,889.21, with costs and interest at 6 per cent, per annum from August 25, 1930, Alternative defendants to the action were Messrs. Beckman & Linden Engineering Corporation and Mr. E. W. Beardsley, its former employee. The latter did not enter an appearance and was declared in default, Mr. H. D. Rodger appeared for the Harbin Electric Joint Stock Ca. Ltd; Mr. W. S. Fleming and Mr. C. S. Franklin: represented, respectively, Messrs. Beckman &' Linden Engineering Corporation and the National City Bank of New York.
In judgment Judge Purdy said:
This is an action against the National City Bank of. New York to recover Harbin $465,182.73, together with interest thereon from June 25, 1927. The amount represents the balance of two deposits with accumulated interest which the plai tiff made with the defendant bank at the city of Harbin in 1923. The first of these deposits, amor $222,000, was made ary and April, 1923, and was carried upon the books of the defendant in the name of "Beckman & Linden Engineering Corporation, represented by Mr. E, W. Beardsley and Mr. Sui Pan-dze, President Concessionaires, Harbin Electric Light Joint Stock Ca., Ltd.," and the second deposit, amounting to Harbin $300,000, was made in the month of November, 1923, and carried on the books of the defendant in the name of the "Harbin Tramway Company."
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