W. A. Ransom & Co. v. Scheen & Bradley

Defendants are appellants from a judgment against them as drawers, in favor of plaintiffs, payees, of two drafts or bills of exchange drawn at Sparta, Louisiana, on W. Morrison & Co., of New Orleans, both dated 2nd of February, 1874 one at sight, the other at sixty days after date.

The bills were not protested, and plaintiffs base their right to recover on the following allegations in their petition.

That these two bills were presented to drawers in due season, for payment and were neither accepted nor paid, they, the drawees, stating that the drawers had not placed them in funds, that they had…