Munroe v. Woodruff
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s county. Action, brought on the 16th of January 1858, by the appellants as holders, against the appellee as endorser, of five promissory notes, all drawn by George W, Harrison, and purporting to be endorsed by James M. Benton, Elizabeth Harrison and the defendant, and all dated at Alexandria, Va., and payable at the Bank of the Republic,-in the city of New York. Plea, no promise as alleged.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Prince George’s county. Action, brought on the 16th of January 1858, by the appellants as holders, against the appellee as endorser, of five promissory notes, all drawn by George W, Harrison, and purporting to be endorsed by James M. Benton, Elizabeth Harrison and the defendant, and all dated at Alexandria, Va., and payable at the Bank of the Republic,-in the city of New York. Plea, no promise as alleged. The protests of these notes, purporting to be made as they respectively matured, by Gardiner Spring, Jr., Notary Public in the city of New York, are in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGoudsborougii, J.
The appellees instituted suit in the circuit court for Prince George’s county against the appellant, to recover the amount of five promissory notes, of which George W. Harrison was the drawer, and the appellant, together with James M. Benton and Elizabeth Harrison, were endorsers.
The appellant pleaded that he did not promise as alleged, and the appellees, by their replication, joined issue thereon.
At the trial of this cause, the appellees offered in evidence to the jury, the testimony taken under a commission to Jonathan S. Ely, of the city of New York, for the purpose of showing a sufficient…
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