Tatum v. Bank of Cumming

Stolz, Judge.

This is a suit upon a note executed by the defendants, Tatum and Cutler, to the plaintiff Bank of Cumming in return for a $35,000 loan. The plaintiff contends that this note is part of a series of three notes which, together with several oral agreements, constitutes an integrated contract by which the bank advanced money to the defendants, taking their note in return. Subsequently, the note was to be transferred to a corporation which the defendants would form to carry out their business ventures.

At the close of the evidence, the trial judge granted the plaintiffs motion for a…