Hanson v. Bank of Lagrange

This is a suit on a note, executed December 8, 1926, in behalf of an insolvent bank, the payee, in which the defendant pleaded as a set-off an amount which the defendant alleged that he had on deposit in the bank when the bank closed its doors and ceased operation. The undisputed evidence was to the effect that the defendant, C. W. Hanson, was pastor of the First Christian Church of LaGrange, Georgia, and that the money had been deposited by him in the plaintiff bank in December, 1926, and January, 1927, “just,before the bank closed” and after the creation of the debt evidenced by the note…