U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland November 15, 1847 (City Bank of Columbus v. Farmers' & Planters' Bank of Baltimore)

TANEY, Circuit Justice.

The City Bank of Columbus is entitled to recover in this action, if the bank-note in question was taken for a valuable consideration, in the usual course of its business as a bank, bona fide, and under circumstances which would not have excited the suspicion of a person of ordinary prudence and care in business, that the note had been lost by, or stolen from, the rightful