Cornwell v. Southern Maryland Trust Co.

BARBER, Acting Associate Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, rendered against appellant because of insufficiency of an affidavit of defense under the seventy-third rule.

The Southern Maryland Trust Company, a corporation, hereinafter referred to as the Trust Company, in its declaration sought to recover the amount, with interest, of a negotiable promissory note dated October 16, 1921, given for the sum of $2,250, payable to the order of the makers three months after date, which was concurrently indorsed and delivered to the Trust…