Legal Opinion

Bank v. Bowdre Bros.

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided August 7, 1893PublishedCited by 21 opinions

PROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. L. H. Estes, J.

1Opinion of the CourtMcAlister, J.

This is an action of libel brought by the firm of Bowdre Bros. & Co. in the Circuit Court of Shelby County against the Continental Rational Bank of Memphis and C. E. M. Riles, its cashier. It appears, from the record that on October 16, 1890, Messrs. R. L. Bliss & Co., of Florence, Alabama, drew a sight-draft on Bowdre Bros, for the sum of six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-five cents. This draft was sent for collection through the First Rational Bank of Florence, Alabama, to the Continental Rational Bank at Memphis.

It appears that R. L. Bliss & Co. were customers of Bowdre Bros. &…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Newbold v. J. M. Bradstreet & SonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1881

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Memphis Publishing Co. v. NicholsTennessee Supreme Court · 1978
  2. Erick Bowman Remedy Co. v. Jensen Salsbery Laboratories, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926
  3. Commercial Pub. Co. v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1907
  4. Cooley v. GalyonTennessee Supreme Court · 1902
  5. Riley v. Dun & Bradstreet, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1949

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