Hoffman v. Coombs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Allegany county court. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellee against the appellants upon the following promissory note. “ $618. Cumberland, August 6th, 1845. Four months' after I promise to pay to the order of John Coombs, six hundred and eighteen dollars for value received negotiable and payable at the Cumberland Bank of Allegany. Jonathan Butler.”
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Appeal from Allegany county court. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellee against the appellants upon the following promissory note. “ $618. Cumberland, August 6th, 1845. Four months' after I promise to pay to the order of John Coombs, six hundred and eighteen dollars for value received negotiable and payable at the Cumberland Bank of Allegany. Jonathan Butler.” On the back of this note the names of the appellants were endorsed in blank, and over them the plaintiff at the trial wrote so that the endorsement read as follows:— “August 6th 1845. For value received we undertake…
1Opinion of the CourtMagruder, J.
The appellee, who was the plaintiff in the court below, claimed the amount of a promissory note, which, according to its language, was negotiable and payable at the Cumberland Bank of Allegany. The note was drawn by one Jonathan Butler, payable to the plaintiff in the court below. On the back of this note so tobe negotiated and paid, the names of the *286appellants are to be found written first in order the name of the appellant, Hoffman, and below it that of the other appellant, the handwriting of each being admitted.
At the time of the trial, there were written over their signatures, these words:
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