Savannah Bank & Trust Co. v. Hartridge
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and Agent. Banks. Contracts. Charge of Court. Verdict. Recoupment. Set-off. Pawns. Before Judge Harden. City Court of Savannah. July Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision, it is only necessary to add that the following were among the grounds of the motion for new trial: (24.) Because the court charged the jury as follows: “ Now as to the question of the difference in price, the third plea.
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Principal and Agent. Banks. Contracts. Charge of Court. Verdict. Recoupment. Set-off. Pawns. Before Judge Harden. City Court of Savannah. July Term, 1884. To the report contained in the decision, it is only necessary to add that the following were among the grounds of the motion for new trial: (24.) Because the court charged the jury as follows: “ Now as to the question of the difference in price, the third plea. It has seemed to me that in the discussion a portion of the facts of that plea have been somewhat overlooked. The argument has .been made to you that Mr. Hartridge, when he came to…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The record makes this case: Milo Hatch was the cashier of the Savannah Bank and Trust Company, and wishing. to procure money from the bank to purchase Central Rail*227road and Banking Company stock, he applied to A. L. Hartridge, who knew that, according to the rules of the-bank, an officer of the bank could not become its debtor. It was agreed between them that Hartridge should purchase two hundred shares of Central Railroad stock, and that Hatch, as such cashier, should advance to Hartridge the money to pay for the same, it being the bank’s money, and that Hartridge should…
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