Bradley v. Northern Bank
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Louis Wyeth. This action was brought by the Northern Bank of Alabama, a corporation chartered under the laws of this State, against Joseph C. Bradley; was commenced on the 18th August, 1871; and was founded on a bill of exchange for $8,550, drawn by Jordan & Moore, at Maysville, Alabama, October 13, I860, on Bradley, Wilson & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, payable ninety days after date, to the order of Daniel B.…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Madison. Tried before the Hon. Louis Wyeth. This action was brought by the Northern Bank of Alabama, a corporation chartered under the laws of this State, against Joseph C. Bradley; was commenced on the 18th August, 1871; and was founded on a bill of exchange for $8,550, drawn by Jordan & Moore, at Maysville, Alabama, October 13, I860, on Bradley, Wilson & Co., New Orleans, Louisiana, payable ninety days after date, to the order of Daniel B. Turner, and indorsed by said Turner and the' defendant. The complaint contained but one count, which was in the form…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
The calculation by appellant’s counsel, of the day when the bill of exchange sued on in this cause became payable, is not correct. The 11th day of January, 1861, and not the 12th, was the term of the period of ninety days after the 13th of October, 1860, the day of the date of the bill; and the third and last day of grace, when the bill should have been paid or protested, was the l4th day of January, the day when the protest was made.
2. No adhesive substance is probably so good as wax, to receive, retain, and distinctly exhibit the figures and legend, or other devices, upon a seal, official…
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