Moore v. Corning & Co.

The plaintiff seeks to make the defendants liable, in solido, for the payment of a note of which L. T. Leblanc was the maker, and W. Beaty the endorser, as damages. He alleges that said note, which he held as endorsee, was enclosed by him to J. J. Anderson & Co., at St. Louis, with instructions to forward the same to New Orleans, where it was payable at the banking house of Benoist, Shaw & Co., for collection; that it was accordingly sent to Corning & Co., who caused it to he protested for non-payment, by Thomas Layton as notary public; and, that in consequence of the latter’s failure to give…