Bank of LaFayette v. Phipps
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Complaint; from Walker superior court—Judge Wright. June 6, 1919.
1Opinion of the CourtJenkins, P. J.
The Bank of LaFayette, Ga., brought an action against E. F. Phipps and his mother, Mrs. Anna Phipps, upon certain promissory notes signed by them apparently as joint makers. Both defendants admitted the execution of the notes, but E. F. Phipps interposed a plea setting up as a defense his discharge in bankruptcy, and Mrs. Anna Phipps set up as a defense that she signed the notes merely as surety for her son, and that, being a feme covert, she could not legally become surety; that the plaintiff charged a usurious rate of interest on the notes, having collected eight per cent, ipterest in…
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