People's National Bank v. Magruder

— The Peoples National Bank of Orlando sued J. B. Magruder upon two promissory notes each for eight hundred dollars. The notes were made' by Magruder and were payable to the order of the bank. Each *237bore interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum after maturity, and each provided for the payment of reasonable attorneys’ fees in case it should become necessary to collect the note through an attorney. One note was dated July 23, 1913, and the other August 15th of the same year. Each note was payable sixty days' after date.

Magruder averred in substance in his first plea that he owned the…