First Nat. Bank v. Talley
Decision Date | 16 June 1926 |
Docket Number | (No. 649-4511.) |
Citation | 285 S.W. 612 |
Parties | FIRST NAT. BANK OF GOREE v. TALLEY. |
Court | Texas Supreme Court |
Action by W. T. Talley against the First National Bank of Goree. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, which certified three questions to the Supreme Court. First question answered in the negative.
Dickson & Newton, of Seymour, and D. J. Brookreson, of Benjamin, for appellant.
T. R. Odell and B. F. Reynolds, both of Throckmorton, A. M. Howsley, of Albany, and Joe Wheat, of Seymour, for appellee.
The following provisions of our Negotiable Instruments Act are pertinent:
Article 6001—132, Negotiable Instruments Act (Vernon's Ann. Civ. St. Supp. 1922 [article 5941, § 132, R. C. S. 1925]):
Section 137 of the same article:
"Where a drawee to whom a bill is delivered for acceptance destroys the same, or refuses within 24 hours after such delivery, or within such other period as the holder may allow, to return the bill accepted or nonaccepted to the holder, he will be deemed to have accepted the same."
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