Nebraska Hay & Grain Co. v. First National Bank

Ames, C.

The following is a brief statement of the facts alleged in the petition: On the second day of February, 1905, one J. C. Smith made and subscribed, apparently in his oivn name, a draft upon the plaintiffs, as drawee's, for the sum of $900 payable to the order of the defendant bank, an institution doing business in Falls City, in this state. To the draft he attached Avhat purported to be a bill of lading, indorsed in blank by himself, and signed by a station *335agent of the Missouri Pacific Railway Company at Reserve, Kansas, of a shipment of corn from the latter point to the plaintiffs at…