Venable Bros. v. Riley-Grant Co.

On October 28,1896, Venable Brothers gave to Riley-Grant Company, a corporation, several promissory notes, due at different dates, and contemporaneously with the execution of these notes the parties entered into a written contract which recited: that Venable Brothers had employed Riley-Grant Company to secure for them a loan on certain real estate in the city of Atlanta, known as Temple Court and the Old Capitol Lot, and that said Riley-Grant Company did secure a loan of $100,000 from the Equi*128table Life Assurance Society on Temple Court, and of $30,000 on the Old Capitol Lot; that Venable…