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HORTSMAN v. HENSHAW ET AL.

52 U.S. 177 (____)

11 How. 177

JOHN HORTSMAN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JOHN HENSHAW, WILLIAM WARD, AND JOSEPH W. WARD, MERCHANTS AND COPARTNERS, DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE FIRM AND STYLE OF HENSHAW, WARD, & CO., DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The material facts in this case may be stated in a few words.

Fiske & Bradford, a mercantile firm in Boston, drew their bill of exchange upon Hortsman of London, payable at sixty days' sight to the order of Fiske & Bridge, for six hundred and forty-two pounds sterling. The drawers, or one of them, placed the bill in the hands of a broker, with the...

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