Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 31, 1913 (Phelps v. McQuade)

Clarke, J.:

The plaintiffs were jewelers. On February 15, 1911, one Walter 0. Gwynne falsely represented himself to the plaintiffs to be Baldwin J. Gwynne, a resident of the Lincoln Hotel in Columbus, 0., with a satisfactory rating in the reports of the Dun and Bradstreet Mercantile Agencies, and, later on the same day, the manager of Jules S. Bache & Co., bankers, identified the said Walter 0.