Peoples National Bank v. Haralson

The bank sued Haralson upon two acceptances, which it claimed to hold as bona fide purchaser from the Southern Wholesale Jewelry Company. The defendant filed a plea of non est factum, and also a plea which possibly can be regarded as a defense of total failure of consideration, though we are more -inclined to regard it as a mere amplification of the plea of non est factum by showing what was -the -real transaction between the alleged parties to the bill of exchange, thereby excluding the proba*312bility of the acceptance being genuine. The jury found for the defendant. Apart from the general…