Brantley v. Karas

This is a chancery proceeding brought by the executors, trustee, and beneficiaries under the will of Nina Mae Karas for a determination of the beneficiaries’ interests in a promissory note in which the appellants purchased an interest. On this appeal we consider three issues: whether the appellants, W. Lawrence Brantley and his wife, were holders in due course, whether the appellees provided sufficient evidence to rebut the presumption of equal ownership of the note, and whether the attorney’s fees incurred in this suit by the executors are recoverable from the purchasers’ interest in the…