Watson v. Planters' Bank

The plaintiff alleges that in July, 1863, he made an agreement with W. A. Johnson, as agent of the Planters’ Bank of Tennessee, to invest a large sum of Confederate treasury notes in cotton, which the said bank was to sell and pay to him an equal part of the proceeds thereof; that on the first of August following ho signed a written agreement or contract in the premises, without reading it, believing it to contain the terms of the agreement made by him, and that he made the investment and shipped the cotton in accordance with his understanding of the contract; that the cotton was sold, and…