Blount County Bank v. Harris
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; W. W.- Haralson, Judge. Assumpsit by the Blount County Bank against Mrs. Susie Harris. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Blount County; W. W.- Haralson, Judge. Assumpsit by the Blount County Bank against Mrs. Susie Harris. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals, under Acts 1911, p: 450, § 6. The charge given by defendant and referred to .in the opinion is as follows: The court ,charges the jury that if you are reasonably satisfied from the evidence in this case that tbe Southern Pickle Company agreed to issue and deliver one share of the capital stock of said company for the note here sued on, and failed to so deliver said property to…
1Opinion of the CourtMeOLELLAN, J.
This is an- action by the appellant bank against the maker (appellee) of a promissory note, executed to the Southern Pickle Company, a corporation, to purchase one share of its capital stock, and transferred before its maturity to the bank. There a^e no assignments of error bringing into question any ruling on the pleadings. Neither the note nor any indorsement on it is reproduced anywhere in the transcript. The court below, in its instruction to the jury, reduced the issues tendered by the defendant’s special pleas to these: (a) Whether the consideration for the note failed because the…
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