Mobley v. Tufts

A executed a “rent note” in which she promised to pay B or bearer 3,500 pounds of middling lint cotton on September 15, 1926, at Waynesboro, Georgia. B resided in the State of New York, and on September 15, 1926, the note was there in her possession, and it was not forwarded to Waynesboro until about September 25, 1926. On September 14, 1926, C (the agent and husband of A) inquired of the brother of B (who had acted as B’s agent in taking the rent note) as to the whereabouts of the note, and the brother told C that he did not know where the note was, but that it might be at the Bank of…