Dickinson v. Planters' Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee; the case being thus: . One William Dickinson, a manufacturer of salt at Kanawha, in that part «of Virginia now called West Virginia, had an agent selling the salt in Tennessee and thereabouts. By direction of Dickinson, this agent took the proceeds, and with them bought a draft of the Planters’ Bank of Tennessee, at Nashville, on the Bank of Virginia, at Richmond; the former bank crediting the latter with the amount.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee; the case being thus: . One William Dickinson, a manufacturer of salt at Kanawha, in that part «of Virginia now called West Virginia, had an agent selling the salt in Tennessee and thereabouts. By direction of Dickinson, this agent took the proceeds, and with them bought a draft of the Planters’ Bank of Tennessee, at Nashville, on the Bank of Virginia, at Richmond; the former bank crediting the latter with the amount. The draft was in this form : $5224.25. Planters’ Bank of Tennessee, Nashville, Nov. 14, 1861. Pay to the order of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
It is very clear that in this ease there was no special finding of facts upon which any judgment for the plaintiff could have been rendered. The suit was an action to recover the amount of a check dated November 14th, 1861,'drawn by *257the defandants in error upon the Bank of Virginia, at Richmond, and payable to the order of the plaintiff’s testator. To the declaration the defendants pleaded the general issue, and the parties, by written stipulation filed with the clerk of the court, waived a jury. It is true that no such stipulation has been sent up with the record, but in the judgment it is…
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- Dickinson v. The Planters' BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1873