Buddecke v. Harris

Ludeling, O. J.

This suit is instituted by the plaintiff to recover from *564the defendants, in solido, the sum of twenty-one thousand two hundred and-eighty-nine dollars, and eight cents, with legal interest, being the aggregate amount of three bills of exchange, drawn by the commercial' firm of Jno. H. Elliot & Co., of New Orleans, on W. P. Converse & Co., o.f-NewYork, which the plaintiff bought'from the defendants, who. were acting as exchange brokers, and-which bills were not paid.

The plaintiff alleges that the defendants are responsible to1 him’for the-amounts of these bills, because “at the…