Williams v. Huntington
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception.—The plaintiff offered one prayer which is stated sufficiently in the opinion of the Court.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. Exception.—The plaintiff offered one prayer which is stated sufficiently in the opinion of the Court. The defendant offered three prayers, the second and third of which are stated in the opinion of the Conrt, and the first is as follows : 1. That if the jury find from the evidence that the note sued upon in this case, dated the 20 th of February, 1884, was one of several notes given by the said defendant to one Andrew J. Guise, for the purpose of disposing of the same for the benefit of said Williams, and…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, J.
The cause of action in this case is a promissory note dated February the twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, signed by the appellant and payable in fifteen months after its date to Andrew J. Guise and Company, for twenty-five hundred dollars. It was endorsed by the payee to the order of W. H. Harrison, from whom the appellee claims to have purchased it in good faith, without knowledge or notice of any infirmity, two months before its maturity, for eighteen hundred and fifty dollars. Harrison endorsed the note in blank. Upon the trial in the Court below after all the evidence had been…
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