Boyd v. Cross
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Sometime in November,- 1868, the appellant appeared at the counter of the Commercial and Farmers’ National Bank in. Baltimore city, and presented .a check on said bank, purporting to have been drawn by Cox & Brown, commission merchants in said city.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. Sometime in November,- 1868, the appellant appeared at the counter of the Commercial and Farmers’ National Bank in. Baltimore city, and presented .a check on said bank, purporting to have been drawn by Cox & Brown, commission merchants in said city. The teller of the bank to whom the check was handed, noticing that the amount called for in the body of the check, was different from the amount indicated by figures, remarked that there was something wrong about it; to this the appellant responded, yes, he thought so too— that he wanted…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This was an action instituted by the appellant against the appellee and the Commercial and Farmers’ National Bank, for malicious prosecution and false imprisonment; the case being tried as for malicious prosecution alone.
All the prayers on the part of the defendants, except the 7th and 8th, were conceded by the plaintiff. He also conceded that the evidence offered by him failed to make any case against the bank; and the Court, by granting the 8th prayer of the defendants, instructed the jury that there was no evidence of malice or want of probable cause as against either of the defendants,…
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