Wesson v. Garrison

We think the District Judge did not err in treating as an answer what the defendant styled a peremptory exception.

The bill was properly protested on the third day of grace, 4th February, the request in the body of the bill being to pay on the 1st February. The bill was drawn in New York on a New Orleans drawee. The discussion in the appellants brief of foreign usage, is utterly irrelevant.

The protest states, that the bill was presented for payment at the office of G. Burke & Go., the drawees, to a gentleman styling himself book-keeper of that house, and who stated that he was duly authorized…