B & W Pipeline, Inc. v. Newton County Bank

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellee, Newton County Bank (Bank), commenced this action against B & W Pipeline, Inc. (B & W), to collect on a promissory note executed on February 8, 1985, by B & W. The trial court granted summary judgment for the Bank both on its claim and *685B & W’s counterclaim alleging fraud, and B & W brings this appeal. Both parties agree that the facts as delineated by the trial court, and quoted below, are essentially undisputed.

“Prior to the execution of the promissory note in question, the Bank’s president, one Don Hairston, assisted one John Jolley in obtaining a land…