Etting v. Bank of United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was an action of assumpsit brought in the Court below by the defendants in error, against the plaintiff in error, Etting, as the endorser of the promissory note of James W. M‘Cullough, under the following circumstances, In the year 1819, the president of the Branch Bank, established at Baltimore, his pártner in trade, M‘Cullougli, the cashier of the branch, and Williams, one of the directors of the parent bank, had contracted a…
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ERROR to the Circuit Court of Maryland. This was an action of assumpsit brought in the Court below by the defendants in error, against the plaintiff in error, Etting, as the endorser of the promissory note of James W. M‘Cullough, under the following circumstances, In the year 1819, the president of the Branch Bank, established at Baltimore, his pártner in trade, M‘Cullougli, the cashier of the branch, and Williams, one of the directors of the parent bank, had contracted a debt to the bank to the amount of 3,497,700 dollars. The directors at Philadelphia, in consequence of some information…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
If this case depended on the deservedly high character of the individuals who were engaged on the part of the bank in the transactions in which the suit originated; if elevation above the. possibility of suspicion that they could have meditated any thing believed by themselves to be legally or morally wrong, could decide it, this cause would not have required the great efforts which have been bestowed upon it. The names which appear on this record can never be connected with actual fraud; nor would any difficulty be found in protecting them from the imputation, were it possible that it could…
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