Atlantic Trust & Deposit Co. v. Town of Laurinburg
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern' District of Virginia, at Norfolk.
1Opinion of the Court
DAYTON, District Judge.
This was an action of debt upon a bond with collateral conditions, instituted by the town of Laurinburg, a municipal corporation of North Carolina, against the Atlantic Trust & Deposit Company, a Virginia corporation, engaged in the guaranty and bonding business. The defendant entered some 9 different pleas and filed a statement of 12 different grounds of defense. A trial by jury was had, resulting in a verdict .and judgment for $9,000 for the plaintiff and the defendant took 16 bills of exception thereto. Twenty-two assignments of error are now here relied on to…
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