Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. of New York v. Wilcox County, Ga.

BARRETT, District Judge.

This is a suit on a note reading as follows:

“Six months after date, for value received, Wilcox county, Georgia, promises to pay to W. H. Patterson, or hearer, at the Hanover National Bank, in the city of New York, N. Y., the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars, with interest thereon after maturity at the rate of S per cent, per annum.

“This note is issued in pursuance of a resolution duly adopted by the commissioners of roads and revenues of Wilcox county, Ga., at a meeting held on the 29 th day of August, 1917, and duly signed by the chairman thereof as…