Bank v. Short

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 64
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 301

Syllabus

<p>Married woman's promissory note — Accommodation surety.</p> <p>A married woman is not liable as maker of a note where the verdict of the jury establishes that in giving a note she was an accomodation surety for her husband.</p> <p>Banks and banking — Married woman's note.</p> <p>When a banker discounts a note of a person known by him to be a married woman on which others are associated, he is chargeable with knowledge that there is a statutory limitation on her power to make such paper.</p>