Packard v. Town of Bovina
Packard v. Town of Bovina
24 Wis. 382
Packard v. Town of Bovina
Opinion of the Court
The judgment in this case must be affirmed. A town is not liable on an order drawn on its treasurer, until the order has been presented for payment,- and payment refused. It is like a bill of exchange or check. There is no default until the drawee has refused payment.
A demand being necessary, it would scarcely be insisted that a demand upon the treasurer’s boy, fourteen or fifteen years old, at the barn, and in the absence of the treasurer, was any demand upon him.
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed, with costs.
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