Otto Baedeker & Associates, Inc. v. Hamtramck State Bank

The suit is on a contract “for special representation in Baedeker’s International Trade Developer.” The defense was fraud, that defendant’s cashier was induced by the deception of plaintiff to execute the instrument without reading it and without knowing it was a contract.

The proposition was presented to defendant through the mail, by letter and form of contract, in October, 1928. The letter inclosed a clipping, containing defendant’s name, its capital and surplus, names of some of its officers and correspondent banks, with statement that it represented the way defendant was recorded on…