Supreme Court of Virginia March 11, 1880 (Broun v. Hull)

Staples, J.

The note which is the subject of the pres-en^ controversy, was executed in May, 1861, by Norborne Berkely and Charles E. Berkely, to Broun & Co., for the sum of eighteen hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty cents, and was negotiable and payable six months after date at the Exchange hank, Alexandria. It was deposited by the payees in the hank for collection, hut not being paid at.