Kleinwort & Cohen v. Klingender Bros.

This is an appeal from a judgment on a rule dissolving an attachment.

The plaintiffs, a commercial firm residing in London, England, represent that Klingender Brothers, a commercial firm of Liverpool, are indebted to them in the sum of £500 sterling, or its equivalent in dollars ; for this, that plaintiffs are the owners of a bill of exchange of that amount, drawn November 7th, 1857, by G. W. Oliver <& Co., sixty days after sight, which was duly accepted by defendants, but that they have failed and proved utterly insolvent, by reason whereof the said bill is now due and payable.

The sixty days…