Morgan v. Lathrop

The plaintiff sues the defendant for $615 39, it feeing the balance of cash on deposit with the defendant, on the 24th day of May, 1853, as a private hanker, conducting business under the .style of “ Insurance and Banking Agency.”

Defendant reconvenes, and, admitting that there was that amount in his hands to the credit of petitioner, alleges that he indorsed (credited) it on a bill of exchange dated 23d day of March, 1853, payable thirty days after date, to the order of defendant, for fourteen hundred dollars, and drawn on George Nichols, of Shreveport, La., and protested for non-payment. The…