Webb v. Baltimore Commercial Bank

The appellant (plaintiff) is seeking-to recover through this suit in equity the proceeds of checks collected by appellee (defendant) for one of its depositors, upon which the endorsement is alleged to have been unauthorized and fraudulent. A breach of trust is also alleged and appellee’s “knowing participation in it” amounting, it is claimed, to a conversion of funds belonging to appellant. From the order of Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City sustaining the demurrer to the amended bill of complaint this appeal is taken.

The facts admitted by the demurrer are: Under date of October 28, 1936,…