Meldrum v. Henderson

This suit was brought by the appellants to recover from the appellee, as assignee of M. H. Smith, a banker at Ster*257ling, Colorado, the unpaid balance of a draft alleged to have been deposited with Smith for collection, and collected by him before making the assignment. A trial of the issues made by the pleadings resulted in a judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiffs appealed.

On, and for a considerable time before, the 17th day of June, 1893, the plaintiff Tedmon was register, and the plaintiff Meldrum, receiver, of The United States land office at Sterling. On that day The Union…