Nott's v. Beard
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE NINTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF CARROLL, JUDGE DAVIS PRESIDING. This is an action by the executor of William Nott, deceased, against the defendant as drawer of a bill of exchange, to his own order, on Messrs. Bullitt, Shipp & Co., and accepted, payable twelve months after date. It was endorsed in blank by the drawer. The bill was protested for non-payment, and due notice thereof given to the defendant.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE NINTH DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF CARROLL, JUDGE DAVIS PRESIDING. This is an action by the executor of William Nott, deceased, against the defendant as drawer of a bill of exchange, to his own order, on Messrs. Bullitt, Shipp & Co., and accepted, payable twelve months after date. It was endorsed in blank by the drawer. The bill was protested for non-payment, and due notice thereof given to the defendant. The plaintiff alleges, that the defendant had no funds in the hand sof the drewers when he drew the draft, anddid not afterwards place any funds in their hands to…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
From the mass of extraneous and immaterial matter, with which the clerk of the inferior court has incumbered the record, we have extracted the facts of this case. The defendant in January, 1837, at New-Orleans, drew a bill of exchange in his own favor, on Bullitt, Shipp & Co., for six thousand nine hundred and sixty-two dollars and forty-nine cents, payable twelve months after date, which was accepted, and the bill put in circulation by the drawer endorsing it. When the bill became due it was protested for non-payment, and this suit is instituted by the holders. The answers are:
1. Jonathan…
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