Carlisle Deposit Bank v. Rheem

Opinion by

Junkin, P. J.

The defendant is sued as endorser of a draft dated November 17th, 1870, drawn by William Leeds, in his own favor and order, for $1200, at forty days, on Henry Glass, and by him accepted, payable at the Union Banking Co., Philadelphia. The plaintiff, a bank at Carlisle, over one hundred miles from the former place, discounted in due course of business, the said draft, and at its maturity, the 30th December, 1870, payment being refused, it was duly protested, and the notices, instead of being mailed at Philadelphia, were sent on the 31st of December, 1870, to the…