Pierce, Butler & Pierce Manufacturing Corp. v. Daniel Russell Boiler Works, Inc.

These four actions of contract, which were tried together, are brought to recover the amount of certain “trade acceptances” identical in form except as to dates, the amount, the time of payment, and the drawee. The declaration in each case consisted of three counts upon a separate trade acceptance, and, the plaintiff having waived the first count in one of the actions, the trial proceeded upon the remaining eleven counts. The answers were a general denial with averments of payment, and that the indorsements were ultra vires as to the defendant corporation, as well as the want of authority of…