Turner v. Bank of Fox Lake

The question in this case is, whether the defendant was discharged as drawer of the first draft, as his supposed liability as such was the sole consideration upon which the one in suit was drawn, and that was drawn in ignorance of the facts upon which it is now claimed such liability had been discharged. The question is not affected by the fact that funds had been placed in the hands of the drawee by the drawer for the purpose of paying this particular draft, as the liability of the latter in such a case is the same as it is where the former is in funds for the payment of the general drafts…