Northwestern Coal Co. v. Bowman & Co.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Ida Circuit Court. Action against defendants on their indorsement of a draft drawn by a banker doing business at Odebolt, in this state, on the First National Bank of Chicago. Plaintiff recovered judgment in the circuit court, and defendants appealed. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
Plaintiff is a corporation, engaged in mining and selling coal, at Moingona, Boone county, and defendants *151are coal merchants at Odebolt, in Sac county. On the thirty-first of October, 1883, defendants purchased from a banker, at Odebolt, a draft drawn by himself on the Eirst National Bank of Chicago, for $592.47. The draft was made payable to the order of defendants, and they indorsed it to plaintiff, and sent it by mail to plaintiff, who received it at Moingona on the same day on which it was drawn. It was sent by defendants and received by plaintiff in payment of an indebtedness. There was…
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