Walters v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, Asswnpsit brought on the 4th of May 1858, by the appellants, as endorsees, against the appellee, as endorser, of a promisory note for $431.84, drawn by John F. McJilton and endorsed by Edward Spedden, Samuel Brown, and W. T. Walters & Co. The note is dated “Baltimore, Feb. 1857,” payable at four months, to blank order.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas, Asswnpsit brought on the 4th of May 1858, by the appellants, as endorsees, against the appellee, as endorser, of a promisory note for $431.84, drawn by John F. McJilton and endorsed by Edward Spedden, Samuel Brown, and W. T. Walters & Co. The note is dated “Baltimore, Feb. 1857,” payable at four months, to blank order. The plaintiffs, who constitute the firm of W. T. Walters & Co., placed the note in the Farmers and Planters Bank of Baltimore for collection, and, not being paid at maturity, it was duly protested. The facts of the case are fully stated in…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
This action of assumpsit was instituted in the Court of Common Pleas for Baltimore city, upon a promissory note for four hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-four cents, drawn by John F. McJilton, and indorsed by Edward Sped-den, Samuel Brown and W. T. Walters & Co. The note is dated, “Baito., February 1857,” and all the parties to the same reside in Baltimore.
The defendant pleaded “that he did not promise as alleged:” to which the plaintiffs joined issue.
*289The verdict and judgment being in favor of the defendant the plaintiffs appealed.
A denial of the plaintiffs’ right to recover is based…
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