Supreme Court of Louisiana May 15, 1870, No. 1803 (L. Levering & Co. v. Clark)

Howell, J.

On the seventeenth April, 1866, Clark, at St. Louis, shipped thirty-six bales of cotton to Hamilton & Dunnica, factors in New Orleans, and drew on them his bill of exchange, at one day’s sight, for $4800, which was negotiated at St. Louis and sent iorward attached to the bills of lading to Smith, Newman & Co.