Jenkins v. First Nat'l Bk. of Balto.

The appellant was an endorser before delivery of three promissory notes of the Jenkins Provision Company fotr $5,000 each payable to “ourselves” and endorsed in blank by the company for' discount by the National Bank of Baltimore. In a suit by the bank against the appellant as endorser of the notes, after default in payment at their maturity, the defense sought to be interposed, by proffers of parol proof which the trial Court rejected, was that the appellant, who was president of the Jenkins Provision Company, became an endorser individually upon certain notes of the company, of which those…