Lindley v. First National Bank
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Black Hawk District Court. — Hon. C. F. Cough, . Judge. Action on an alleged acceptance. The district court sustained a motion to strike out certain allegations' in the petition. Defendant then filed a demurrer to the petition, which was also sustained. Plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, C. J.
— On the seventeenth of November, 1887, George Barro sent a dispatch from Los Angeles, California, to defendant, directing it to transmit two thousand dollars by telegraph to plaintiff at Los Angeles, and charge the amount to his account, he having at the time a deposit of a larger amount with defendant. On the next day defendant’s cashier telegraphed to plaintiff that the bank would pay Barro’s draft on it for two thousand dollars. On the receipt of that dispatch at Los Angeles, Barro drew his draft and delivered it to plaintiff in payment of an indebtedness he was owing him. The following…
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