Hume Webster & Co. v. Howe Machine Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon an acceptance; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The case, with the next preceding one of The Credit Company v. The Howe Machine Company, was referred to a committee, and beard with that case, and the facts common to both were embodied in a single finding, which is given in full in the report of that case.
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Action upon an acceptance; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The case, with the next preceding one of The Credit Company v. The Howe Machine Company, was referred to a committee, and beard with that case, and the facts common to both were embodied in a single finding, which is given in full in the report of that case. The finding of the additional facts peculiar to the present case was as follows:— On the 28th day of March, 1877, A. B. Stockwell drew upon the Howe Machine Company two drafts for $10,000 gold each, payable at sixty days’ sight, and addressed to the Howe Machine…
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
For the facts which are common to this and the cognate case of The Credit Company (Limited) v. The Howe Machine Company, reference is made to the latter. The additional facts solely applicable to this are, that the plaintiffs were in March, 1877, doing business as bankers in London, England; that on March 28th, 1877, A. B. Stock-*400well drew a draft upon the defendant company, at its office in the city of New York, in favor of the plaintiffs at sixty days sight, for the sum of $10,000 in gold. Soon after the date of the draft it was delivered by A. B. Stockwell to the plaintiffs, who indorsed…
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