Welge v. Batty

Appellees, a firm doing a milling business at Waverly, Illinois, on December 8, 1881, sold to appellants, a business firm at Hillsboro, in this State, two car loads of corn, to be shipped from the former to the latter place. On the 16th day of the same month, and after the corn had been shipped, appellees drew a sight draft on appellants for $600 in favor of W. W. Brown, cashier of a bank in Waverly, who indorsed the same to Haskell, Harris & Co., bankers at Hillsboro, for collection on account of the Waverly bank. At the same time appellees informed appellants, by letter, “ We draw for $600…