Agnew v. Bank of Gettysburg
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Frederick County Court This was an action af assumpsit, brought the 30t.h of July 1824, on a promissory note, by the appellees, (the plaintiffs in the court below,) as the holders thereof, against the appellant, (the defendant,) being one of the endorsers. The defendant pleaded non assumpsit*, and issue was joined At the trial of this cause on the 15fla of February 1826, the plaintiffs gave in evidence the promissory note upon which the action was brought, viz.
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Appeal from Frederick County Court This was an action af assumpsit, brought the 30t.h of July 1824, on a promissory note, by the appellees, (the plaintiffs in the court below,) as the holders thereof, against the appellant, (the defendant,) being one of the endorsers. The defendant pleaded non assumpsit*, and issue was joined At the trial of this cause on the 15fla of February 1826, the plaintiffs gave in evidence the promissory note upon which the action was brought, viz. “Doll. 1100. Gettysburg, Dec. 27, 1823, Sixty days after date, T promise to pay Charles W, Big. ham, or order, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtArcher, J.
The various questions which have been discussed arise on the general prayer that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover.
The general issue having been plead, the plaintiff, to support the issue on his part, and to shew that at the commencement of the suit he had a right to sue, offered in evidence letters patent issued by the governor of Pennsylvania under the great seal of that state, whereby it appeared that the Gettysburg Bank, anterior to the suit, was a regularly chartered company of that commonwealth. By the same letters patent it appears that the charter of the bank had, by its own…
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