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HORTSMAN v. HENSHAW ET AL.

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52 U.S. 177 (1851)

11 How. 177

13 L.Ed. 653

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.

February 20, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Upon this exception the cause came up to this court, where it was argued by Mr. Fletcher Webster, for the plaintiff in error, and submitted by Mr. Curtis, upon a printed brief prepared by Mr. Whiting, for the defendants in error.

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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