State Bank v. Hamilton

This was an action on the case brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendants in error. The declaration contains eight counts. The first count alleges that on, See., the defendants, fraudulently intending to deceive the plaintiff, and to induce the plaintiff to purchase the bills of exchange therein mentioned, addressed to Bethuel F. Morris, who was then cashier of the branch of the plaintiff at Indianapolis, a letter recommending the firm of McQueen and McKay, of Detroit, as a house of long standing and the highest respectability, &c.; that the plaintiff, confiding in the truth of…