Browning v. National Capital Bank
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment on verdict in an action on the case for an alleged deceit. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is an action on the case for alleged deceit, instituted-by the appellee, the National Capital Bank of Washington, the plaintiff below, against the appellant, Horatio Browning. The declaration contains three counts, varying the statement of the one and same cause of action.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment on verdict in an action on the case for an alleged deceit. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: This is an action on the case for alleged deceit, instituted-by the appellee, the National Capital Bank of Washington, the plaintiff below, against the appellant, Horatio Browning. The declaration contains three counts, varying the statement of the one and same cause of action. By the first count, it is alleged that the defendant, intending to deceive and defraud the plaintiff, wrongfully and deceitfully encouraged and persuaded…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
At the trial there were several questions of the admissibility of evidence reserved and excepted to by the defendant; but the main and principal question of the case is presénted by two instructions given to the jury at the instance of the plaintiff, and by the refusal of three prayers offered for instrdction by the defendant. The instructions granted and refused are as follows:
“1. If the jury believe from the evidence that the defendant, for the purpose of enabling Scott to borrow $2,500 from the plaintiff, wrote and delivered to him the letter of December 20, 1895; that said Scott delivered…
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