Central National Bank v. Copp

The judge found that the name of the defendant on the notes declared on is forged, but that in January, 1899, she called at the bank and acknowledged in some form of words that the three notes then held by the bank “ were her notes”; and he found for the plaintiff upon the ground of ratification. The defendant has argued that the finding of ratification is not warranted by the evidence, but we think otherwise. The president testified that after some conversation with the defendant as to “ a line of discount on notes ” signed by her and her husband jointly, in which he cautioned her as to the…