Moore v. Potomac Savings Bank

This action was instituted against Warner Moore, defendant below, to recover $6,000 on three negotiable notes for $2,000, each, dated November 29, 1930, payable six months after date, with six per cent interest, to the order of the maker and by him signed and indorsed. From an adverse judgment and verdict Moore obtained this writ of error.

The material facts appear to be that on November 28, 1930, at the Powhatan Hotel in Washington, D. C., one A. T. Herd, who at that time owed Moore $30,000, represented to him that he was negotiating with the Commissioner of Banks in the State of Minnesota to…