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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
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442 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
justly chargeable with the sum of $500, with interest thereon,
from the 16th of August, 1839, paid to the Farmers' Bank of
Maryland, in satisfaction of the note given to meet the sub-
scription to stock in the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad
Company, and the propriety of so charging the complainant
is not understood to be disputed, though it is urged, that the
defendant, by the form in which he has presented the claim in
his answer, has precluded himself from insisting on it. Having
read this part of the answer with much care, the complainant's
construction of it dees not appear to be the true one. It
appears to me, that the answer, in effect, charges the com-
plainant with having obtained a double credit for the said sum
of $500 in his cash account, whilst he charges himself but
once with that sum, though he received it twice; first, upon
the note discounted at the Bank, and secondly, upon Heig-
ham's order on the Railroad Company. The Auditor reports,
that the complainant is properly chargeable with this sum, and
in this conclusion I concur.
22d. In this paragraph of the amended answer, the defen-
dant insists, that complainant should be charged with various
sums of money, paid away and expended by him, in connexion
with the proposed establishment of a Bank, and for tavern
bills, travelling expenses, and for newspapers, &c., not at all
connected with the business of the Company, and for which
the Company was in no wise bound or liable. And the answer
exhibits two papers, marked A A, No. 5 and A A, No. 6,
showing the amounts and dates of the sums so expended.
And this part of the answer, furthermore, insists, that com-
plainant is justly chargeable for house-rent, and for some
other small matters, not particularly enumerated. The Audi-
tor reports, that no evidence has been offered to show that the
Company ever authorized any action in reference to the esta-
blishment of a Bank, and I have been unable to discover any;
I am, therefore, of opinion, that the complainant should be
charged with such sums of the funds of the defendant as he
expended in the steps taken by him to establish the Bank, but
I do not think he is chargeable with travelling expenses, news-

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