Hunter v. Van Bomhorst & Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Allegany county court. This suit was brought upon three promissory notes, the first dated 14th March 1846, drawn by Phineas Janney, to the order of Hunter, defendant, payable at the Western Bank of Baltimore, for $1,300, six months after date, and by Hunter endorsed to the plaintiffs; the second dated 7th December 1846, drawn by Janney, and payable, sixty days after date, to the order of Hunter, at Cumberland Bank of Allegany; and the last dated the 7th December…
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Appeal from Allegany county court. This suit was brought upon three promissory notes, the first dated 14th March 1846, drawn by Phineas Janney, to the order of Hunter, defendant, payable at the Western Bank of Baltimore, for $1,300, six months after date, and by Hunter endorsed to the plaintiffs; the second dated 7th December 1846, drawn by Janney, and payable, sixty days after date, to the order of Hunter, at Cumberland Bank of Allegany; and the last dated the 7th December 1846, drawn by Janney, payable to, and endorsed by Hunter, payable four months after date, at Cumberland Bank of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mason, J.
The first exception in this case raises the question, whether the letter of the plaintiffs to W. M. Holliday, Esq., dated the 16th October 1846, and set out in the record, is a privileged communication, and whether as such it can be used in evidence against them. If the letter stood alone, unexplained by the testimony of Mr. Holliday, it would clearly have been inadmissible as evidence, from the facts that it was written to an attorney, and upon professional business relating to, and affecting the interests of the plaintiffs. From these facts…
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