Baltimore Trust Co. v. Oidick

The verdict of the jury was for the plaintiff in the sum of $1,600.25. The substantial ground for the defendant’s motion for a new trial is the suggested error in the rulings of the Court in excluding testimony tendered by the defendant as hereinafter stated. The action was upon a promissory note of the defendant to the order of Bernstein, Cohen & Co., which was the trade-name of Max Cohen, a private banker, and by that banker endorsed in blank and delivered to the plaintiff with other similarly endorsed notes as collateral security for a loan from the plaintiff to Bernstein, Cohen & Co. By…