Thomas v. Thomas
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CRAWFORD CIRCürT COURT. This was an action commenced before the code, by the service of a declaration and notice of rule to plead.
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APPEAL PROM CRAWFORD CIRCürT COURT. This was an action commenced before the code, by the service of a declaration and notice of rule to plead. The declaration contained a special count on the acceptance of a bill of exchange, and also the money counts, with a copy °of said bill, which was as follows: “ $277, 27-100. New Yore, December 7, 1855. Twenty days after sight pay to the order, Thomas & Fuller, two hundred and seventy-seven 27-100 dollars, value received, with exchange on New York, and charge the same to the account of Thomas & Fuller. J. Thomas & Co. The bill was endorsed in blank,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
This is an action upon a bill of exchange. The respondents residing in New York, drew upon the appellants, a firm doing business at Prairie du Chien, for two hundred and séventy-seven 37-100 dollars, payable to their own order, twenty days from sight. The circumstances under which the bill was presented and accepted by the appellants are fully disclosed in the testimony of Mr. Dousman, a witness sworn on the part of the appellants in the court below. He says:
“ I presented to the defendants the draft upon which the action is brought. Enos P. Wood, one of the defendants,…
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