Appleman v. Fisher
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Cross-Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action brought by the appellant in the first of the above cases, to recover damages growing out of an alleged breach of a contract with the appellees for the sale of gold.
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Cross-Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an action brought by the appellant in the first of the above cases, to recover damages growing out of an alleged breach of a contract with the appellees for the sale of gold. At the trial below, the plaintiff excepted to the admissibility of certain evidence taken under a commission in New York on the part of the defendants, to prove the fact of the actual purchase of the gold by them on the 24th of September; that it was made by a regular broker at the Gold Board; that the Gold Board was the usual place of buying gold; that…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
Appleman, a banker and broker in Hagerstown, and Fisher & Sons, bankers and brokers in Baltimore, had dealt together in their business as bankers and brokers, and between whom there existed an open account of their transactions, when, on the 31st of March, 1869, the former, by telegraphic correspondence, conducted mostly in cipher, con-ti’acted to sell to the latter §100,000 gold, short, at $1.31. This amount of gold, at the price agreed on in currency, was credited by Fisher & Sons in account, and carried by them for Appleman, until the 24th of September, 1869, when they, availing themselves…
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