Brantley v. Merchants & Farmers Bank
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from Campbell superior court—Judge Smith. December 1, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, J.
The defendant in this case entered'^a plea setting up an original total lack of consideration, and also offered as an amendment thereto the defense that the note had never been delivered to the payee, but that, after having been entrusted by the maker into the hands of the payee, to be held by him as the property of the maker pending certain negotiations, it was fraudulently converted by the payee, and by him illegally indorsed, and thus came into the hands of the holder, who is the plaintiff in the suit. It is not the contention of the defendant that if the plaintiff be in fact an innocent…
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