Van Winkle Gin & MacHinery Co. v. Citizens' Bank of Buffalo
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. The suit was brought by the Citizens’ Bank against the Van Winkle Gin & Machinery Co. to recover the amount of an accepted draft drawn on it by the Buffalo Forge Co. Plaintiff had judgment for the amount of the claim and defendants, appealing to the Court of Civil Appeals, where the judgment was affirmed, then obtained this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
On the 27th day of June, 1892, the Buffalo Forge Company, a partnership doing business in Buffalo, New York, drew on the Van Winkle Gin ánd Machinery Company, of Dallas,. Texas, the following instrument:
“$1930 50-100. Buffalo, N. Y., June 27, 1892.
“Four months after date pay to the order of ourselves nineteen hundred and thirty 50-100 dollars. Value received, with exchange on Buffalo or New York.
“To Van Winkle Gin and Mchy. Co., Buffalo Forge Co.
“No. 10195. Dallas, Texas. W. F. Wendt, Sec’y.”
A few days thereafter the said drawee accepted said bill in the following…
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