Dickinson v. The Planters' Bank

83 U.S. 250

21 L.Ed. 278

16 Wall. 250

DICKINSON

v.

THE PLANTERS' BANK.

December Term, 1872

ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee; the case being thus:

One William Dickinson, a manufacturer of salt at Kanawha, in that part of Virginia now called West Virginia, had an agent selling the salt in Tennessee and thereabouts. By direction of Dickinson, this agent took the proceeds, and with them bought a draft of the Planters' Bank of Tennessee, at Nashville, on the Bank of Virginia, at Richmond; the former bank crediting the latter with the amount. The draft was in this form:

$5224.25.

PLANT…