F. and M. Nat. B'k Buffalo v. . Sprague

The plaintiff's cause of action against the defendants, as set out in the complaint, is founded upon their acceptance of a draft drawn upon them by the firm of A. Kinnick Co., doing business in Buffalo as carriers upon the canal, which draft was discounted by the plaintiff. The affidavits do not tend to show that the defendants were guilty of any fraud in making the acceptance; and while they disclose some circumstances, tending to show that the defendants lived in a somewhat extravagant and expensive manner, in houses of great value for the occupancy of insolvents belonging to their…