Frazier v. New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co.

Bullard, J. .

The plaintiffs sue as assignees of the Commercial and Rail Road Bank of Vicksburg, for a balance alleged to be due by the New Orleans Gas Light and Banking Company of $7426 47.

The defendants, after an exception which need not be further noticed, answered to the merits, that the Bank of Vicksburg is indebted to them in the sum of $6250, the amount of a promissory note drawn by one Anderson, and endorsed by several persons, which note was forwarded to that Bank, in pursuance of an agreement between the two institutions, for collection, which they failed *295to make, or properly to…