Washington Loan & Trust Co. v. Cowgill

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment in a replevin case involving the ownership of a certain promissory note.

The note was dated August 18, 1930, and was signed by the Shoreham Hotel Corporation, payable in the sum of $2,000, three years after date, to the order of John PI. Holmead, and secured by first deed of trust on certain'real estate in the city of Washington, D. C.

The note is numbered 146 of a series of I, 760 promissory notes, being a part of a loan made to the Shoreham Hotel Corporation by the Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Company, bankers and brokers, of Washington, D.…