Gormley v. Chance

This was a suit in a city court, on a note by E. E. Gormley, superintendent of banks, for the use of the Citizens Bank *839of Waynesboro, against W. O. Chance as maker, and Guy Chance as indorser or surety. Guy Chance filed an answer denying that he was liable for attorney’s fees, and among other allegations he set up, “that a few weeks before the said bank was placed in the hands of the State superintendent of banks, defendant and others undertook to establish or form an agricultural credit or finance company; that defendant paid to E. C. Neely, the treasurer of the group attempting to form the…