Eller v. First National Bank
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 149, April T., 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., First Term, 1910, No. 80, on verdict for defendant in case of J. H. Eller v. First National Bank. Appeal from order of an alderman. Before Carnahan, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. ■Errors assigned were various instructions. cited: Hackett v. Reynolds, 114 Pa. 328; First Nat.
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Appeal, No. 149, April T., 1913, by plaintiff, from judgment of C. P. Allegheny Co., First Term, 1910, No. 80, on verdict for defendant in case of J. H. Eller v. First National Bank. Appeal from order of an alderman. Before Carnahan, J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appealed. ■Errors assigned were various instructions. cited: Hackett v. Reynolds, 114 Pa. 328; First Nat. Bank v. Gregg, 79 Pa. 384. cited: Morgan v. Tener, 83 Pa. 305; Hoover v. Wise, 91 U. S. 308; Bradstreet v. Everson, 72 Pa. 124.
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Head, J.,
A. H. Post & Co., of New York City, were “Foreign Freight Forwarders, Custom House Brokers and Foreign Exchange Collectors.” The plaintiff, through their agency, shipped a consignment of merchandise to a purchaser in South Africa. At about the same time he drew on the consignees for the price of the goods. Whether the draft was to the order of Post & Co.; or to the order of the drawer, and by him indorsed, the record does not certainly show, but that- becomes immaterial in the light of the concession of the parties that there was nothing on the face of the draft or its…
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- First National Bank v. Gregg & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1875
- Hackett v. Reynolds, Lamberton & Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1886
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