May v. Kelly
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. W. RapieR. This action was brought by Kelly & Frazier against James T. May, on a bill of exchange of the following tenor: “ Exchange for §416. Louisville, Ky., November 11,1852. “ Nine months after date of this first of exchange (second of same tenor and date unpaid), pay to the order of the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, payable at the co. room of May & Yanhook, New Orleans, four hundred and…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. C. W. RapieR. This action was brought by Kelly & Frazier against James T. May, on a bill of exchange of the following tenor: “ Exchange for §416. Louisville, Ky., November 11,1852. “ Nine months after date of this first of exchange (second of same tenor and date unpaid), pay to the order of the Merchants’ Louisville Insurance Company, payable at the co. room of May & Yanhook, New Orleans, four hundred and seventy-sis dollars, value received, and place the same to account of insurance on S. Bt. Messenger. “To Capt. B. W. Bell, )…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
Conceding that a bill, directed in blank, may be accepted by anybody, and be a good bill; and conceding, also, that notwithstanding the want of an address to any particular person, as drawee, the bill may, if it be drawn payable at a particular house or place, without men tioning the name of any person who resides or does business at that house or place, be well deemed a good bill in favor of an endorsee ; and that the acceptance by another person of such bill is an acknowledgment that lie was the person to whom it was directed, and therefore sufficient to bind him as acceptor ; yet, when the…
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