Maryland Casualty Co. v. Hjorth

The following opinion was filed March 10, 1925:

Owen, J.

The court was right in denying the motion to change the answer to the question by which the jury found that the plaintiff did not refrain from canceling its bond in consideration of the execution and delivery of the note. There was a square conflict in the evidence on this question between Hjorth and Coleman, the agent of the plaintiff, who conducted the negotiations leading up to the execution of the note, and, besides, it appears without dispute that the contract between Hjorth and the Jennison Mills Company was terminated prior to the…