Meeker v. Jackson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Suit against the defendant as acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn on him by Daniel Smith, for 165 dollars, payable at 60 days sight, to David Deaderick or order, and by him indorsed to the plaintiffs. The bill was said to be accepted on the 30th April 1795, and to have been since lost or mislaid.
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Suit against the defendant as acceptor of a bill of exchange, drawn on him by Daniel Smith, for 165 dollars, payable at 60 days sight, to David Deaderick or order, and by him indorsed to the plaintiffs. The bill was said to be accepted on the 30th April 1795, and to have been since lost or mislaid. It was proved by the plaintiffs’ clerk, chat in April 1795, he entered this bill in their waste book, and transferred it to their bill book and numbered it; that it was indorsed by Deaderick, *but he knew not whether it was accepted. The letter book of the plaintiffs was shewn, whereby it appeared,…
1Opinion of the Court
The court said, these were facts whereon the jury must judge. The former had been proved, and the latter might be inferred from the defendants’ letter. But the plaintiffs must indemnify the defendant against the bill.
The jury gave a verdict pro quer. for $240 14 cents, without leaving the bar.
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