International Finance Corp. v. People's Bank of Keyser

BAKER, District Judge.

This is an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff, a corporation engaged in commercial banking or the discounting of paper in the city of Washington, D. C., upon what purports to be a negotiable certificate of deposit, dated December 31, 1921, for the sum of $10,000, which plaintiff claims was issued by the defendant to one Adolph Segal, and which plaintiff further claims was acquired by it for value in due course before maturity.

On January 7,1922, a broker by the name of W. P. Whitaker came to the office of the plaintiff, and in the regular course of business…