Freeman v. Exchange Bank
Supreme Court of Georgia
Garnishment. Indorsement. Drafts. Evidence. Charge of court. Justices’ courts. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. April term, 1890. The error alleged is the dismissal of the certiorari and sustaining the verdict of a jury rendered in a magistrate’s court. In a suit by Freeman against Brown & Company the Exchange Bank of Macon was served with summons of garnishment, and this case arose upon a traverse of its answer.
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Garnishment. Indorsement. Drafts. Evidence. Charge of court. Justices’ courts. Before Judge Miller. Bibb superior court. April term, 1890. The error alleged is the dismissal of the certiorari and sustaining the verdict of a jury rendered in a magistrate’s court. In a suit by Freeman against Brown & Company the Exchange Bank of Macon was served with summons of garnishment, and this case arose upon a traverse of its answer. Freeman was a merchandise broker in Macon, and ordered from S. A. Brown & Company a certain lot of corn, and a draft hereafter referred to, Freeman testified, was drawn by…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. Aji indorsement for collection, or the like, is not a conti’act of indorsement, but the creation of a power, the indorsee being a mere agent to receive or enforce payment for the indorser’s use. Central Railroad v. First National Bank, 73 Ga. 383 ; Tiedeman Com. Pap. §268 ; 1 Daniel Neg. Instr. §§698-698(d) ; 2 Randolph Com. Pap. §§724-5-6-7, 1009 ; 1 Morse Banks, §217 ; 2 Id. §§ 583, 593 ; Bolles’ Banks & Depositors, §§220, 384(e) et seq.; Benj. Chalmers’ Bills, Notes & Cheeks *47(2 Am. ed.), 132 ; Commercial National Bank v. Armstrong, 39 Fed. Rep. 684 ; National B.…
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