Farmers' Nat. Bank of Center v. Merchants' Nat. Bank of Houston
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Shelby County ; James I. Perkins, Judge. Action by' the Farmers’ National Bank of Center against the Merchants’ National Bank of Houston and others. From the judgment in favor of defendant bank, plaintiff appeals; and from the judgment for plaintiff against defendants Potts & Lynch, said Potts & Lynch appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMeMEANS, J.
The ‘ Farmers’ National Bank of Center, hereafter called the Farmers’ Bank, brought this suit against the Merchants’ National Bank of Houston, hereafter called the Merchants’ Bank, and Potts & Lynch, a copartnership composed of W. C. Potts and W. H. Lynch to recover the amount of a draft drawn by Potts & Lynch in favor of the Farmers’ Bank upon the Valley Lumber Company for 81,500. Plaintiff alleged that on the 3d day of June, 1907, Potts & Lynch drew a customer’s draft on the Valley Lumber Company, a corporation, in favor of the Farmers’ Bank for $1,500, and that said bank received the same…
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