Walters v. Western & A. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia
TMs was a suit by William T. Walters and others against the Western & Atlantic Railroad Company, in which the Capital City Bank intervened. The receivers of defendant excepted to" the master’s report.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAX, District Judge.
The authorities riled by counsel for the receivers seem undoubtedly to establish the proposition that *392where a time draft is drawn by the consignor of goods, and attached to a bill of lading for the goods, and the draft is sent to a bank for collection at the place to which the goods are consigned, an acceptance by the drawee entitles him to have the bill of lading delivered to him; the reason given for this ruling- being that the consignee is expected to sell the consigned goods in order to realize funds with which ,to take up the draft by the time it matures. National…
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- North Pennsylvania Railroad v. Commercial Bank of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Friedlander v. Texas & Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1889
- The ThamesSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
- National Bank of Commerce of Boston v. Merchants' Nat. Bank of MemphisSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
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