Heckscher v. Robertson

Citations

• 29 S.C.L. 398

Syllabus

<p>1. Assumpsit on bills of exchange drawn by defendants, payable to their order and endorsed to plaintiffs. The bills were protested for non-acceptance and non-payment. In an action against the drawers, the plea was that t-hey had authority to draw, and that the drawee was bound in law to accept the hills, of which the plaintiffs afterwards had notice; and that plaintiffs, by a written release under seal, had released the drawee from all liability ; but it was not alledged that they had been accepted. Demurrer to the plea, which was overruled. Held that the plea was no bar to plaintiffs’s action, and judgment should have been for the demurrer.</p>