Colwell v. Weybosset National Bank

We are asked to reconsider our opinion, delivered last term, on the ground that we have misapprehended to some extent the evidence and the cases cited by us as authority, and also on the ground that the decision is very important in its practical bearings, and conflicts with the views generally entertained in business and banking circles. Persons belonging to those circles, it is said, keep the run of the paper discounted at the banks or in circulation, noting not only the amount and the parties to it, but also whether it be individual or copartnership, and guide themselves accordingly in…