Stone v. Georgia Loan & Trust Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Levy and claim. Before Judge Reese. Taliaferro superior court. February term, 1898.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, P. J.
In 1885 one Bacon bargained a tract of land in Taliaferro county to Stone for $3,000, the latter paying $1,500 in cash and taking a bond from Bacon conditioned to make title upon payment of the balance of the purchase-money. In 1889, with money borrowed from the Georgia Loan & Trust Company, for the use of which Stone contracted to pay interest amounting to more than 8 per cent, per annum, he discharged his debt to Bacon, took title to himself, and then conveyed the land to the company as security for his debt to it. The company took this conveyance without notice or knowledge that Mrs. Stone…
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