Dougherty v. Western Bank
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assumpsit, in Eloyd Superior Court. Tried before Judge Lumpkin. February Term, 1853. This was an action brought in 1851, against tbe Western Rank of Georgia, on sundry of their notes, or bank bills.. On the trial,, the plaintiff offered in evidence two twenty dollar bills, one of which read as follows: The Western Bank of. Georgia promises to pay Thos. Pullum or bearer, on demand, twenty dollars. Rome, Jan. 31. (Signed,) WM. SMITH, Pres’t.
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Assumpsit, in Eloyd Superior Court. Tried before Judge Lumpkin. February Term, 1853. This was an action brought in 1851, against tbe Western Rank of Georgia, on sundry of their notes, or bank bills.. On the trial,, the plaintiff offered in evidence two twenty dollar bills, one of which read as follows: The Western Bank of. Georgia promises to pay Thos. Pullum or bearer, on demand, twenty dollars. Rome, Jan. 31. (Signed,) WM. SMITH, Pres’t. (Countersigned,) R. A. GREEN, Cash’r. The other hill offered, was the same, save that it was dated July 13, 1840, and payable “ at Rome.” To the admission…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The action was brought against'the Western Bank of Georgia, upon sundry notes or bills of that bank; and upon the trial, the plaintiff tendered in evidence two of these bills, one of which was payable generally on demand, and the .other on demand at Rome. Both of them were barred upon their face by the Statute of Limitations. To their going in evidence, it was objected, first, that there was no allegation of demand of payment in the declaration, and no proof of the same. The Court sustained the objection, and the plaintiff excepted. The…
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