Todd v. Bank of Kentucky
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 42 — PETITION ORDINARY — APPEAL PROM PRANKLIN CIRCUIT COURT. CITED— Edwards on Bills, 405, 383, 272, 430. 2 Broad. Sf Bing., 168; Rowe vs. Young. 1 Met., 643; Rogers vs. Poston. Byles on Bills, 149. Story on Bills, secs. 239, 240. 3 Kent, 6th ed., p. 86. 1 Parsons on Notes and Bills, pp. 351, 352. 25 Eng. Law and Eq. R., 123; Burchfield vs. Moore. CITED— 1 Met., 647; Rogers vs. Poston. Edwards on Bills and Notes, p. 94. 2 Parsons on Bills and Notes, pp. 558, 559.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE WILLIAMS
delivered the opinion oe the court:
The appellee, as holder, brought suit upon a bill of exchange for seven thousand dollars, at six months’ time, dated July 4, 1.867, drawn by Gray & Todd to order of Ii. I. Todd, addressed to R. P. Pepper, Frankfort, Kentucky, which appears to be accepted by him, payable at the Northern Bank, Lexington. The place where drawn does not appear in the bill.
Todd, as indorser, resists any recovery against him, because, as he avers in his answer, that, when he indorsed the bill, Pepper had accepted it by writing his name across -the face; that he was a…
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