Daviess County Bank & Trust Co. v. Wright
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 3. — ACTION BY MARY C. WRIGHT, A MARRIED WOMAN, AND. OTHERS AGAINST THE DAVIESS COUNTY BANK & TRUST COMPANY TO HAVE COLLATERAL NOTES, PLEDGED AS SECURITY, ADJUDGED RELEASED. — May 12. Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. T. P. Birkhead, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals — SYNOPSIS AND LIST OP AUTHORITIES. 1. Positions assumed as settled.
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CASE 3. — ACTION BY MARY C. WRIGHT, A MARRIED WOMAN, AND. OTHERS AGAINST THE DAVIESS COUNTY BANK & TRUST COMPANY TO HAVE COLLATERAL NOTES, PLEDGED AS SECURITY, ADJUDGED RELEASED. — May 12. Appeal from Daviess Circuit Court. T. P. Birkhead, Circuit Judge. Judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals — SYNOPSIS AND LIST OP AUTHORITIES. 1. Positions assumed as settled. (ab) The pledge of collaterals as security by the appellee, Mrs. Wright, a married woman, was valid although she was not personally bound. (Ky. St., 2127; Wirgman v. Miller, 9S Ky., 620; N. Y. Life Ins. Co. v. Miller, 22 Ky. Law…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Chief Justice O’Rear—
Reversing.
Malcolm Thompson borrowed $2,500 from the appellant bank on February 12, 1903 on which date he executed to it a note, signed by appellee Mary C. Wright as surety, in which she pledged as collateral certain real estate notes belonging to her. The note was due 12 months after date, but was not then paid, the principal having died September, 1903, without having paid it. About a month after the execution of the above-named note appellees Hawes and Thompson, to indemnify Mrs. Wright in her suretyship for Malcolm Thompson, executed to her this…
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