Colquitt & Baggs v. Stultz

JÁCKSON, Chief Justice.

To an action brought by the defendant in error against the plaintiffs in error, besides the general issue, the following pleas were filed : “ And for further plea in this behalf, this defendant says that when defendants gave said plaintiff the promissory note now sued on, they also gave him, as collateral security for said note, a certificate of thirty shares of stock in-- bank, a banking corporation located at Fort Valley, in said state, of one hundred dollars each, amounting in the aggregate to three thousand dollars, that when said note became due, and for some time…