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UNITED STATES v. NAT. EXCH. BANK

No. 222.

270 U.S. 527 (1926)

46 S.Ct. 388

70 L.Ed. 717

UNITED STATES v. NATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK OF BALTIMORE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 12, 1926.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Gardner P. Lloyd, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, with whom Solicitor General Mitchell was on the brief, for the United States.

Messrs. G. Ridgely Sappington and Charles G. Baldwin for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit brought by the United States to recover the difference between the amount to which a check paid by it had been fraudulently raised and the amount for which the check was drawn. The case was heard upon a demurrer to the declaration and the judgment was for the defendant both in the District Court and in the Circuit Court of Appeals, 1 Fed. (2d) 888. The...

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