Jackson v. Myers
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellants against the appellees as endorsers of the following promissory note: §900. Baltimore, June 21 si, 18*73. Sixty days after date, Old Town Permanent Building Association, promises to pay to the order of Myers Brothers, nine hundred fW dollars, with interest, for value received, payable at the German Savings Bank. Thomas H. Boyer, Prest. Robt. L. Dickey, Secy.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action of assumpsit brought by the appellants against the appellees as endorsers of the following promissory note: §900. Baltimore, June 21 si, 18*73. Sixty days after date, Old Town Permanent Building Association, promises to pay to the order of Myers Brothers, nine hundred fW dollars, with interest, for value received, payable at the German Savings Bank. Thomas H. Boyer, Prest. Robt. L. Dickey, Secy. A. 8. Miles, Treas. G. 8. Windsor, Martin Zirpe, John A. Stokes, Directors. (Seal of Old Town Permanent Building Association.) On…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
Whether the note sued on is to be treated as a negotiable promissory note, or as a single bill, under the seal of the corporation, the maker, is the main question in this cause, and the one upon which all the other questions depend. According to the rulings of the Court below, *462the instrument was held to be a single bill, and consequently the appellees were not liable on a mere endorsement of the note, as they would have been if the note had been a negotiable promissory note, instead of what it was held to be.
The appellees being sued, and sought to be held liable, by reason of their…
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