Dominion National Bank v. Manning

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, C. J. :

This was an action brought by the Dominion National Bank of Bristol, Virginia, against E. C. Manning, to recover the amount claimed to be due upon two promissory notes — one for $2235, the other for $1500, with interest on both — and to foreclose a mortgage executed to the said E. C. Manning by one E. F. Manning, and which the former had assigned to the plaintiff as collateral security. E. C. Manning denied liability on both notes except as to $230 of the larger one. As to the remainder of that one, he claimed that it was a renewal of…