Tyson v. State Bank of Indiana

The plaintiff brought an action of assumpsit against the defendant to recover the amount of a bill of exchange drawn on one Bainbridye, which had .been left by the plaintiff with the defendant for collection. The facts were that Dorsey and Tyson on, &c., at Wheeling, drew a bill of exchange on Bainbridge at seventy days, payable to the order of Knox, Lloyd, and Co.; that the payees afterwards indorsed the bill to the plaintiff, and the plaintiff, before it became due, delivered the bill to the defendant at its branch at Lafayette, where *240it was agreed between the parties, that, for a…