First National Bank of Wortham v. Quinby

TALBOT, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellant against the appellees Quinby, Jones and Bounds, partners and grain dealers, to recover the sum of $649.10. The suit is in the usual form of an action upon an open account, the amount sought to be recovered being the aggregate sum of two drafts alleged by the plaintiff to have been given it by defendants for collection, for which they received credit as depositors of the plaintiff bank, neither of which drafts were ever collected, but the amounts -thereof lost to the parties.

The defendants, after a general denial, answered…