Davis v. Bank of Fulton
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bum,, at the April Term, i860. The Bank of Fulton brought an action in Fulton Superior 'Court against James C. Davis, as drawer and endorser, and Williams, Rhea & Co., as acceptors, to recover the sum due on a bill of exchange, drawn by James C. Davis, addressed to the said Williams, Rhea & Co., and accepted by them.
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Assumpsit, in Fulton Superior Court. Tried before Judge Bum,, at the April Term, i860. The Bank of Fulton brought an action in Fulton Superior 'Court against James C. Davis, as drawer and endorser, and Williams, Rhea & Co., as acceptors, to recover the sum due on a bill of exchange, drawn by James C. Davis, addressed to the said Williams, Rhea & Co., and accepted by them. The defendants pleaded to said action: the general issue: payment; set-off; misjoinder of parties defendant; and that there was no such bank as the Bank of Fulton. On the trial in the Court below, the plaintiff introduced in…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Jenkins, J.,
delivering the opinion.
1. The first exception to' the ruling of the Court below assumes that in a case, wherein a corporation is plaintiff, the Court is bound to ignore its existence, unless an exemplified copy of the statute incorporating it, be put in evidence. We hold, that by the first section of “An Act to regulate the admission of evidence in certain cases,” etc., T. R. R. Cobb’s Digest, 272, bank charters are public Acts, and it is made the duty of Courts to- take judicial notice thereof, as in case of other public laws.
2. The exception on- the ground of…
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