Metropolitan Savings Bank v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Gross-Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The Court below decreed that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore should pay to the Metropolitan Savings Bank of Baltimore the sum of $5700, with interest till paid, on $4000 thereof, from the 20th of July,. 1876, to the 13th of November, 1876; on $4500 thereof, from the 13th of November, 1876, and on $5700, the whole thereof, from the 29th of November, 1876, less the amount of interest or dividends shown to have…
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Gross-Appeals from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The Court below decreed that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore should pay to the Metropolitan Savings Bank of Baltimore the sum of $5700, with interest till paid, on $4000 thereof, from the 20th of July,. 1876, to the 13th of November, 1876; on $4500 thereof, from the 13th of November, 1876, and on $5700, the whole thereof, from the 29th of November, 1876, less the amount of interest or dividends shown to have been paid by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. It was further decreed that the Mayor and City Council should pay to…
1Opinion of the CourtIrving, J.
These cross-appeals are a continuation of Mayor and City Council of Baltimore vs. Frederick M. Ketchum, Jr., by his guardian, Wm. Hollingsworth Whyte, 57 Md., 23, wherein the city was required to issue a new certificate of stock to Frederick M. Ketchum, a minor, whose stock had been cancelled upon a forged assignment thereof. The question now involved is, shall the loss resulting from the forgery be borne by the city, or by the Metropolitan Savings Bank; or shall the same be shared by the city and the bank as has been decreed by the Circuit Court?
There can be no doubt, that a corporation, by…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Hambleton v. Central Ohio RailroadCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1876
- Brown, Lancaster & Co. v. Howard Fire InsuranceCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1875
- Mayor of Baltimore v. KetchumCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1881
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- Jennie Clarkson Home for Children v. Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1905
- Trimble v. WollmanMissouri Court of Appeals · 1897
- Rochester v. Seattle, Renton & Southern Railway Co.Washington Supreme Court · 1912