Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. of New York v. Wilcox County

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This was an action by the plaintiff in error on the following instrument:

“Six mouths after date, for value received, Wilcox county, Georgia, promises to pay to W. H. Patterson, or bearer, at the Hanover National Bank, in the ' city of New York, N. Y., the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars, with interest thereon after maturity at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. This note is issued in pursuance of a resolution duly adopted by the commissioners of roads and revenues of Wilcox county, Ga., at a meeting held on the 29th day of August, 1917, and duly signed by…