Drovers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. National Bank

This suit, brought by the plaintiff, against the defendant to recover the sum of $2,506, with interest from February 25th, 1922, was tried before the Court sitting as a jury. The testimony shows:

That upon the faith of a certificate afterwards shown to be forged the National Bank of Baltimore cashed a check for $2,500, drawn by one Hammond on the Drovers and Mechanics’ National Bank of Baltimore, in which bank he then had on deposit a very small sum of money; also then having a deposit in the National Bank of Baltimore in the same name as that of the payee of the cheek and in which account he…